2021
Winner:
Kevin Barry, That Old Country Music (Canongate)
Shortlist:
- Alice Ash Paradise Block (Serpent’s Tail/Profile)
- Rosemary Jenkinson Lifestyle Choice 10mg (Doire Press)
- Jo Lloyd The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies (Swift Press)
- Alexandros Plasatis Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness (Spuyten Duyvil)
Hannah Vincent She-Clown and other stories (Myriad Editions)
The Readers prize was awarded to Alice Ash for Paradise Block.
2020
Winner:
Shelley Day What Are You Like (Postbox Press)
Shortlist:
- Lucy Sweeney Byrne Paris Syndrome (Banshee Press)
- Ruby Cowling This Paradise (Boiler House Press)
- Sarah Hall Sudden Traveller (Faber)
- Linda Mannheim This Way to Departures (Influx Press)
The Readers prize was awarded to Ruby Cowling for Flamingo Land.
2019
Winner
David Szalay, Turbulence (Cape)
Shortlist
Wendy Erskine, Sweet Home (Stinging Fly)
Vicky Grut, Live Show, Drink Included (Holland Park Press)
Chris Power, Mothers (Faber)
Simon van Booy, The Sadness of Beautiful Things (Penguin, USA)
Lucy Wood, The Sing of the Shore (4th Estate)
2018
Winner
Tessa Hadley, Bad Dreams (Cape)
Shortlist
Sarah Hall, Madame Zero (Faber)
Alison MacLeod, All the Beloved Ghosts (Bloomsbury)
Tom Rachman, Basket of Deplorables (Riverrun Books)
Leone Ross, Come Let Us Sing Anyway (Peepal Tree Press)
2017
Winner
Daisy Johnson, Fen (Cape)
Shortlist
Lucy Caldwell, Multitudes (Faber)
Irenosen Okjie, Speak Gigantular (Jacaranda)
K.J. Orr, Light Box (Daunt)
Joanna Walsh, Vertigo (And Other Stories)
2016
Winner
Jessie Greengrass, An Account of the Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It (John Murray Press)
Shortlist
Kate Clanchy, The Not-Dead and the Saved (Picador)
Stuart Evers, Your Father Sends his Love (Picador)
China Mieville, Three Moments of an Explosion (Macmillan)
Thomas Morris, We Don’t Know What We’re Doing (Faber & Faber)
Angela Readman, Don’t Try This at Home (And Other Stories)
2015
Winner
Kirsty Gunn, Infidelities (Faber & Faber)
Shortlist
Madeleine D’Arcy, Waiting for the Bullet (Doire Press)
Carys Davies, The Temptation of Galen Pike (Salt)
Toby Litt, Life-Like (Seagull Books)
Anneliese Mackintosh, Any Other Mouth (Freight)
Rose Tremain, The American Lover (Chatto & Windus)
2014
Winner
John Burnside, Something Like Happy (Jonathan Cape)
Shortlist
Jaki McCarrick, The Scattering (Seren Books)
Bernie McGill, Sleepwalkers (Whittrick Press)
David Rose, Posthumous Stories (Salt)
Rachel Trezise, Cosmic Latte (Parthian)
2013
Winner
Kevin Barry, Dark Lies the Island (Jonathan Cape)
Shortlist
Emma Donoghue, Astray (Pan Macmillan)
Adam Marek, The Stone Thrower (Comma Press)
This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You (Bloomsbury)
Jane Rogers, Hitting Trees With Sticks (Comma Press)
Lucy Wood, Diving Belles (Bloomsbury)
2012
Winner
Sarah Hall, The Beautiful Indifference (Faber & Faber)
Shortlist
A.J. Ashworth, Somewhere Else or Even Here (Salt)
Tessa Hadley, Married Love (Jonathan Cape)
Rowena Macdonald, Smoked Meat (Flambard)
Zoe Lambert, The War Tour (Comma)
2011
Winner
Graham Mort, Touch (Seren)
Shortlist
Michèle Roberts, Mud, Stories and Sex and Love (Virago)
Polly Samson, Perfect Lives (Virago)
Helen Simpson, In-flight Entertainment (Jonathan Cape)
Tom Vowler, The Method (Salt Publishing)
2010
Winner
Jeremy Dyson, The Cranes that Build the Cranes (Abacus)
Shortlist
Jane Feaver, Love Me Tender (Vintage)
A.L. Kennedy, What Becomes (Vintage)
Nuala Ni Conchuir, Nude (Salt )
Robert Shearman, Love Songs for the Shy & Cynical (Big Finish)
2009
Winner
Chris Beckett, The Turing Test (Elastic)
Shortlist
Gerard Donovan, Country of the Grand (Faber)
Anne Enright, Yesterday’s Weather (Cape)
Shena Mackay, The Atmospheric Railway (Cape)
Ali Smith, The First Person and Other Stories (Hamish Hamilton)