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PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS
2025
Rita Bullwinkel
Headshot
2016
Ali Smith
How to be both
2009
Ian Rankin
Exit Music
2009
Sebastian Faulks
Engleby
2008
Stef Penney
The Tenderness of Wolves
2008
James Robertson
The Testament of Gideon Mack
2008
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
2007
Helen Oyeyemi
The Icarus Girl
2007
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
2007
Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian
2006
Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty
2006
Colm Tóibín
The Master
2005
James Robertson
Joseph Knight
2005
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2005
Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake
2003
Ian McEwan
Atonement
2003
Ali Smith
Hotel World
2001
Roddy Doyle
A Star Called Henry
2001
Michael Frayn
Head-Long
2001
J. M. Coetzee
Disgrace
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