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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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