Winner:

Flesh by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist:

Flashlight by Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape)

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)

Audition by Katie Kitamura (Fern Press)

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits (Faber)

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)

Flesh by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)

Longlist:

Love Forms by Claire Adam (Faber)

The South by Tash Aw (4th Estate)

Universality by Natasha Brown (Faber)

One Boat by Jonathan Buckley (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Flashlight by Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape)

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)

Audition by Katie Kitamura (Fern Press)

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits (Faber)

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)

Endling by Maria Reva (Virago)

Flesh by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood (Viking)

Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga (Daunt Books Originals)

Judges:

Roddy Doyle (Chair), Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power and Kiley Reid

Winner: 

Orbital  by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist:

James by Percival Everett (Mantle)

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape)

Orbital  by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape)

Held by Anne Michaels (Bloomsbury Publishing)

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Viking)

Stone Yard Devotional  by Charlotte Wood (Sceptre)

Longlist:

Wild Houses by Colin Barrett (Jonathan Cape)

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Daunt Originals)

James by Percival Everett (Mantle)

Orbital  by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape)

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape)

My Friends by Hisham Matar (Viking)

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud (Fleet)

Held by Anne Michaels (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (Harvill Secker)

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry (Jonathan Cape)

Playground by Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann)

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Viking)

Stone Yard Devotional  by Charlotte Wood (Sceptre)

Judges:

Edmund de Waal (Chair), Yiyun Li, Nitin Sawhney, Sara Collins, Justine Jordan

Winner:

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Oneworld)

Shortlist:

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (Granta Books)

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (4th Estate)

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Oneworld)

This Other Eden by Paul Harding (Hutchinson Heinemann)

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo (Picador)

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Canongate)

Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (Granta Books)

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (4th Estate)

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney (Harvill Secker)

This Other Eden by Paul Harding (Hutchinson Heinemann)

Pearl by Siân Hughes (The Indigo Press)

All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow (Tinder Press)

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Oneworld)

In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (Atlantic Books)

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo (Picador)

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton)

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)

Judges: 

Esi Edugyan (Chair), Adjoa Andoh, Mary Jean Chan, James Shapiro, Robert Webb

Winner:

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sort of Books)

Shortlist:

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Vintage)

The Trees by Percival Everett (Influx Press)

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (4th Estate)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber)

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sort of Books)

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Viking)

Longlist:

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Saraband)

The Trees by Percival Everett (Influx Press)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber)

Trust by Hernan Diaz (Picador)

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (4th Estate)

Booth by Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)

The Colony by Audrey Magee (Faber & Faber)

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sort of Books)

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Viking)

Maps of our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer (Picador)

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley (Bloomsbury)

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz (Galley Beggar Press)

Judges: 

Neil MacGregor (Chair), Shahidha Bari, Helen Castor, M. John Harrison, Alain Mabanckou

Winner:

The Promise by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus)

Shortlist:

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta)

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury)

The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (Viking)

Bewilderment by Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann)

The Promise by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus)

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday/Transworld)

Longlist:

Second Place by Rachel Cusk (Faber & Faber)

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta)

An Island by Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury)

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber)

The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (Viking)

The Promise by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus)

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (Tinder Press)

A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus)

Bewilderment by Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann)

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday/Transworld)

Judges:

Maya Jasanoff (Chair), Horatia Harrod, Natascha McElhone, Chigozie Obioma, Rowan Williams

Winner:

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador)

Shortlist:

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld)

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador)

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)

Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)

Longlist:

Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze (4th Estate)

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld)

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)

Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward (Corsair)

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Bloomsbury)

Apeirogon by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury)

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador)

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)

Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Virago)

Judges: 

Margaret Busby (Chair), Lee Child, Lemn Sissay, Sameer Rahim, Emily Wilson

Winners    

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton)

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Vintage; Chatto & Windus) 

Shortlist:

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (Galley Beggar Press)

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown)

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton)

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Vintage; Chatto & Windus) 

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (Viking)

Longlist:

Lanny by Max Porter (Faber & Faber)

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (Jonathan Cape)

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry (Canongate)

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (4th Estate)

The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Atlantic Books)

The Wall by John Lanchester (Faber & Faber)

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton)

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Vintage; Chatto & Windus) 

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (Galley Beggar Press)

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown)

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (Viking)

Judges: 

Peter Florence (Chair), Afua Hirsch, Liz Calder, Xiaolu Guo, Joanna MacGregor

Winner:

Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist:

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)

Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber)

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape)

The Overstory by Richard Powers (William Heinemann)

The Long Take by Robin Robertson (Picador)

Longlist:

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)

Snap by Belinda Bauer (Bantam Press)

From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan (Doubleday)

Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber)

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape)

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (Hamish Hamilton)

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (Granta)

In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne (Tinder Press)

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape)

Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber)

The Overstory by Richard Powers (William Heinemann)

The Long Take by Robin Robertson (Picador)

Judges: 

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Chair), Val McDermid, Leo Robson, Leanne Shapton, Jacqueline Rose

Winner:

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Bloomsbury)

Shortlist:

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (Faber & Faber)

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Exit West  by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

Elmet by Fiona Mozley (John Murray)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Bloomsbury)

Autumn by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (Faber & Faber)

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Exit West  by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

Elmet by Fiona Mozley (John Murray)

Autumn by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Canongate)

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (4th Estate)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Bloomsbury)

Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Hamish Hamilton)

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury)

Swing Time by Zadie Smith (Haminsh Hamilton)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Fleet Publishing)

Judges:

Baroness Lola Young (Chair), Lila Azam Zanganeh, Sarah Hall, Colin Thubron, Tom Phillips

Winner:

The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Oneworld)  

Shortlist:

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Contraband)

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape)

All That Man Is by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (Granta Books)

The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Oneworld)  

Longlist:

The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee (Harvill Secker)

Serious Sweet by A.L. Kennedy (Jonathan Cape)

The North Water by Ian McGuire (Scribner)

Hystopia by David Means (Faber & Faber)

The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Oneworld)  

The Many by Wyl Menmuir (Salt)

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (Viking)

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Contraband)

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape)

Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves (Fanfare)

All That Man Is by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (Granta Books)

Judges: 

Amanda Foreman (Chair), Jon Day, David Harsent, Olivia Williams, Abdulrazak Gurnah

Winner:

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Oneworld)

Shortlist:   

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Oneworld)

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (One)

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Picador)

A Spool of Blue Thread  by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Picador)

Longlist:

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (Gallery/Scout)

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (One)

The Chimes by Anna Smaill (Hodder & Stoughton)

Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy (Maclehose Press)

The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan (Faber & Faber)

Lila by Marilynne Robinson (Virago)

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Oneworld)

The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami (Bloomsbury)

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Picador)

The Green Road by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)

A Spool of Blue Thread  by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Picador)

Judges: 

Michael Wood (Chair), John Burnside, Sam Leith, Frances Osborne, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Winner:

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)    

Shortlist:

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (Viking)

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)

J  by Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (Jonathan Cape)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)   

How to Be Both by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (Viking)

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)

The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)

J  by Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)   

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (Jonathan Cape)

Us by David Nicholls (Hodder and Stoughton)

The Dog by Joseph O’Neill (4th Estate)

The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)

How to Be Both by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Orfeo by Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)

History of the Rain by Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

Judges: 

A. C. Grayling (Chair), Sarah Churchwell, Jonathan Bate, Daniel Glaser, Alastair Niven, Erica Wagner

Winner:

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta)    

Shortlist:

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)

Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta) 

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate Books)

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Viking)

Longlist:

Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (4th Estate)

The Kills by Richard House (Picador)

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris (Sandstone Press)

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)

Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (Mantle)

The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Doubleday)

Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)

Unexploded by Alison MacLeod (Hamish Hamilton)

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury)

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta) 

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate Books)

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Viking)

Judges:

Robert Macfarlane (Chair), Martha Kearney, Stuart Kelly, Natalie Haynes, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Winner:

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

Shortlist:

Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (And Other Stories/Faber & Faber)

The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (Salt Publishing)

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

Umbrella by Will Self (Bloomsbury)

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon Books)

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (Faber & Faber)

Longlist:

Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (And Other Stories/Faber & Faber)

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (Salt Publishing)

The Yips by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)

The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)

Umbrella by Will Self (Bloomsbury)

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon Books)

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (Faber & Faber)

Skios by Michael Frayn (Faber & Faber)

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday)

Communion Town by Sam Thompson (4th Estate)

Philida by André Brink (Harvill Secker)

Judges:

Peter Stothard (Chair), Dinah Birch, Dan Stevens, Amanda Foreman, Bharat Tandon

Winner:

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape) 

Shortlist:

Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch (Canongate Books)

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape) 

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (Granta Books)

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury)

Snowdrops by A.D. Miller (Atlantic Books)

Longlist:

Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch (Canongate Books)

On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards (Oneworld)

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (Granta Books)

The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness (Seren)

Far to Go by Alison Pick (Tinder Press)

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)

The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers (Canongate)

Derby Day by D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus)

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape) 

The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst (Picador)

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury)

Snowdrops by A.D. Miller (Atlantic Books)

Judges:

Stella Rimington (Chair), Matthew d’Ancona, Susan Hill, Chris Mullin, Gaby Wood

Winner:

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury) 

Shortlist:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)

In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)

The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Hachette)

C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury) 

Longlist:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (Fig Tree)

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

February by Lisa Moore (Random House)

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton)

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury) 

Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)

Trespass by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus)

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)

The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner (Jonathan Cape)

In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)

The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Hachette)

C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)

Judges:

Andrew Motion (Chair), Rosie Blau, Deborah Bull, Tom Sutcliffe, Frances Wilson

Winner:

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate) 

Shortlist:

The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt (Chatto and Windus)

Summertime by J. M. Coetzee (Harvill Secker)

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (Jonathan Cape)

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate) 

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Little, Brown)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Longlist:

The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt (Chatto and Windus)

Me Cheeta by James Lever (4th Estate)

How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber)

The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape)

Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Edward O’Loughlin (Penguin)

Heliopolis by James Scudamore (Harvill Secker)

Summertime by J. M. Coetzee (Harvill Secker)

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Viking)

Love and Summer by William Trevor (Viking)

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate) 

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (Jonathan Cape)

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Little, Brown)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Judges:

James Naughtie (Chair), Lucasta Miller, John Mullan, Sue Perkins, Michael Prodger

Winner:

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

Shortlist:

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)

The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant (Virago)

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (4th Estate)

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold (Tindal Street Press)

From A to X by John Berger (Verso)

A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif (Jonathan Cape)

The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (Chatto & Windus)

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

Netherland by Joseph O’Neil (4th Estate)

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant (Virago)

The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (4th Estate)

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges:

Michael Portillo (Chair), Alex Clark, Louise Doughty, James Heneage, Hardeep Singh Kohli

Winner:

The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)

Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)

Longlist:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)

Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davis (Sceptre)

Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Penguin)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Tindal Street Press)

Winnie & Wolf by A.N. Wilson (Hutchinson)

Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann)

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)

Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)

Judges: 

Howard Davies (Chair), Wendy Cope, Giles Foden, Ruth Scurr, Imogen Stubbs

Winner:

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)

Shortlist:   

The Secret River by Kate Grenville (Canongate Books)

Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland (Canongate Books)

In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Viking)

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)

Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn (Picador)

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Longlist:

The Secret River by Kate Grenville (Canongate Books)

Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

Gathering the Water by Robert Edric (Black Swan)

Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer (Bloomsbury)

Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)

Seven Lies by James Lasdun (Jonathan Cape)

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus)

Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland (Canongate Books)

In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Viking)

The Ruby In Her Navel by Barry Unsworth (Hamish Hamilton)

The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (Hamish Hamilton)

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)

The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr (William Heinemann)

Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan (Faber & Faber)

So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor (Bloomsbury)

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn (Picador)

The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud (Picador)

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Judges:

Hermione Lee (Chair), Simon Armitage, Candia McWilliam, Anthony Quinn, Fiona Shaw

Winner:

The Sea by John Banville (Picador)   

Shortlist:

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

The Sea by John Banville (Picador)   

The Accidental by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (Viking)

In the Fold by Rachel Cusk (Faber & Faber)

The People’s Act of Love by James Meek (Canongate)

Saturday by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

This Is The Country by William Wall (Sceptre)

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Carp)

This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson (Headline Review)

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

All For Love by Dan Jacobson (Hamish Hamilton)

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (4th Estate)

A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

The Sea by John Banville (Picador)   

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

The Accidental by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges: 

John Sutherland (Chair), Lindsay Duguid, Rick Gekoski, Josephine Hart, David Sexton

Winner:

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Picador)  

Shortlist:

Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor (Atlantic)

The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber)

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

The Master by Colm Tóibín (Picador)

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Picador)  

I’ll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward (Chatto & Windus)

Longlist:

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

The Island Walkers by John Bemrose (John Murray)

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4th Estate)

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam (Faber & Faber)

Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)

A Blade of Grass by Lewis Desoto (Maia)

Always the Sun by Neil Cross (Scribner)

Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean (Scribner)

Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson (Faber & Faber)

Cherry by Matt Thorne (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett (Bloomsbury)

Sixty Lights by Gail Jones (Harvill)

The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe (Picador)

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (Virago)

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Picador)  

Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare (Harvill)

The Unnumbered by Sam North (Scribner)

Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor (Atlantic)

The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber)

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

The Master by Colm Tóibín (Picador)

I’ll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward (Chatto & Windus)

Judges: 

Chris Smith (Chair), Tibor Fischer, Robert Macfarlane, Rowan Pelling, Fiammetta Rocco

Winner:

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (Faber & Faber)    

Shortlist:

Brick Lane by Monica Ali (Doubleday)

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)

Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (Viking)

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (Faber & Faber)    

Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall (Tindal Street Press)

Longlist:

Turn Again Home by Carol Birch (Virago)

Yellow Dog by Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape)

Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (Bloomsbury)

Judge Savage by Tim Parks (Secker & Warburg)

Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg (Sceptre)

Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee (Harvill Secker)

The Taxi Driver’s Daughter by Julia Darling (Penguin)

Schopenhauer’s Telescope by Gerard Donovan (Scribner)

The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy (Harper Perennial)

Heligoland by Shena Mackay (Jonathan Cape)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)

Brick Lane by Monica Ali (Doubleday)

The Light of Day by Graham Swift (Simon & Schuster)

A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips (Secker & Warburg)

Waxwings by Jonathan Raban (Picador)

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

The Nick of Time by Francis King (Arcadia)

The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (Faber & Faber)    

Jazz etc. by John Murray (Flambard Press)

Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (Viking)

Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson (Jonathan Cape)

Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall (Tindal Street Press)

Judges: 

John Carey (Chair), A. C. Grayling, Francine Stock, Rebecca Stephens, D. J. Taylor

Winner:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canongate Books)   

Shortlist:

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (Faber & Faber)

Unless by Carol Shields (4th Estate)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canongate Books) 

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor (Viking)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Dirt Music by Tim Winton (Picador)

Longlist:

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (Faber & Faber)

The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas by Dannie Abse (Robson Books)

Shroud by John Banville (Picador)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canongate Books) 

Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot (The Women’s Press)

The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher (Flamingo)

Any Human Heart by William Boyd (Hamish Hamilton)

The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner (Viking)

Peacetime by Robert Edric (Black Swan)

Spies by Michael Frayn (Faber & Faber)

Still Here by Linda Grant (Little Brown)

Unless by Carol Shields (4th Estate)

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor (Viking)

To The Last City by Colin Thubron (Chatto & Windus)

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor (4th Estate)

Who’s Sorry Now? by Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Virago)

The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Dorian, an Imitation by Will Self (Viking)

Dirt Music by Tim Winton (Picador)

Judges: 

Lisa Jardine (Chair), David Baddiel, Russell Celyn Jones, Salley Vickers, Erica Wagner

Winner:

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)  

Shortlist:

Atonement by Ian McEwan  (Jonathan Cape)

Oxygen by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)

number9dream by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (William Heinemann)

Hotel World by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)  

Longlist:

Atonement by Ian McEwan  (Jonathan Cape)

According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

If The Invader Comes by Derek Beaven (4th Estate)

A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg (Sceptre)

Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson (Granta Books)

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)  

The Element of Water by Stevie Davies (The Women’s Press)

The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (Bloomsbury)

Dogside Story by Patricia Grace (The Women’s Press)

By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury)

How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (Viking)

Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf (Dewi Lewis)

Translated Accounts by James Kelman (Secker & Warburg)

The Blue Tango by Eion McNamee (Faber & Faber)

Fairness by Ferdinand Mount (Chatto & Windus)

Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul (Picador)

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Scholastic)

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (Bloomsbury)

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart (Bloomsbury)

The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner (Chatto & Windus)

Oxygen by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)

number9dream by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (William Heinemann)

Hotel World by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges: 

Kenneth Baker (Chair), Philip Hensher, Michèle Roberts, Kate Summerscale, Rory Watson

Winner:

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

Shortlist:

The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi (Picador)

The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins (Phoenix House)

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (Hamish Hamilton)

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O’Doherty (Arcadia)

Judges:

Simon Jenkins (Chair), Roy Foster, Mariella Frostrup, Caroline Gascoigne, Rose Tremain

Winner:

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

Shortlist:

Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (Chatto & Windus)

Headlong by Michael Frayn (Faber & Faber)

Our Fathers by Andrew O’Hagan (Faber & Faber)

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (Bloomsbury)

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín (Picador)

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

Judges:

Gerald Kaufman (Chair), Shena Mackay, John Sutherland, Boyd Tonkin, Natasha Walter

Winner:

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)  

Shortlist:

Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

England, England by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth (Dewi Lewis)

Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe (Picador)

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)  

The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills (Flamingo)

Judges:

Douglas Hurd (Chair), Valentine Cunningham, Penelope Fitzgerald, Miriam Gross, Nigella Lawson

Winner:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo)    

Shortlist:

Quarantine by Jim Crace (Viking)

The Underground Man by Mick Jackson (Picador)

Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty (Jonathan Cape)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo)  

Europa by Tim Parks (Secker & Warburg)

The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John (4th Estate)

Judges: 

Gillian Beer (Chair), Rachel Billington, Jason Cowley, Jan Dalley, Dan Jacobson

Winner:

Last Orders by Graham Swift (Picador)
    
Shortlist: 

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (Jonathan Cape)

The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay (Heinemann)

Last Orders by Graham Swift (Picador)

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Faber & Faber)

Judges:

Carmen Callil (Chair), Jonathan Coe, Ian Jack, A. L. Kennedy, A. N. Wilson

Winner: 

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (Viking)

Shortlist: 
    
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright (Sceptre)

The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth (Hamish Hamilton)

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (Viking)

The Riders by Tim Winton (Picador)

Judges:

George Walden (Chair), Kate Kellaway, Peter Kemp, Adam Mars-Jones, Ruth Rendell

Winner:

How late it was, how late by James Kelman (Secker & Warburg)
    
Shortlist:

Reef by Romesh Gunesekera (Granta Books)

Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Hamish Hamilton)

The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (Chatto & Windus)

How late it was, how late by James Kelman (Secker & Warburg)

Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown (John Murray)

Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh (Green Bay)

Judges: 

John Bayley (Chair), Julia Neuberger, Alastair Niven, Alan Taylor, James Wood

Winner:

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Secker & Warburg)
    
Shortlist:

Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer (Polygon)

Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff (Chatto & Windus)

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Secker & Warburg)

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Chatto & Windus)

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips (Bloomsbury)

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (4th Estate)

Judges: 

Grey Gowrie (Chair), Gillian Beer, Anne Chisholm, Nicholas Clee, Olivier Todd

Winners:

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury)    

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (Hamish Hamilton)

Shortlist: 

Serenity House by Christopher Hope (Macmillan)

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (Picador)

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts (Virago)

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury)    

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges:

Victoria Glendinning (Chair), John Coldstream, Valentine Cunningham, Harriet Harvey Wood, Mark Lawson

Winner:

The Famished Road by Ben Okri (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist: 

Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape)

The Van by Roddy Doyle (Secker & Warburg)

The Famished Road by Ben Okri (Jonathan Cape)

Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry (Faber & Faber)

The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo (Chatto & Windus)

Reading Turgenev by William Trevor (Viking)

Judges:

Jeremy Treglown (Chair), Penelope Fitzgerald, Jonathan Keates, Nicholas Mosley, Ann Schlee

Winner:

Possession by A. S. Byatt (Chatto & Windus)

Shortlist:

An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

Possession by A. S. Byatt (Chatto & Windus)

The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald (Collins)

Amongst Women by John McGahern (Faber & Faber)

Lies of Silence by Brian Moore (Bloomsbury)

Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler (Chatto & Windus)

Judges:

Denis Forman (Chair), Susannah Clapp, A. Walton Litz, Hilary Mantel, Kate Saunders

Winner: 

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist:

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

The Book of Evidence by John Banville (Secker & Warburg)

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford (Hamish Hamilton)

A Disaffection by James Kelman (Secker & Warburg)

Restoration by Rose Tremain (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges: 

David Lodge (Chair), Maggie Gee, Helen McNeil, David Profumo, Edmund White

Winner:

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist:

Utz by Bruce Chatwin (Jonathan Cape)

The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald (Collins)

Nice Work by David Lodge (Secker & Warburg)

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (Viking)

The Lost Father by Marina Warner (Chatto & Windus)

Judges:

Michael Foot (Chair), Sebastian Faulks, Philip French, Blake Morrison, Rose Tremain

Winner: 

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Deutsch)

Shortlist:

Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe (Heinemann)

Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd (Hamish Hamilton)

Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden (Macmillan)

The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore (Jonathan Cape)

The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Deutsch)

Judges: 

P. D. James (Chair), Selina Hastings, Allan Massie, Trevor McDonald, John B. Thompson

Winner:

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (Hutchinson)

Shortlist:

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Jonathan Cape)

Gabriel’s Lament by Paul Bailey (Jonathan Cape)

What’s Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (Viking)

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (Hutchinson)

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo (Chatto & Windus)

Judges:

Anthony Thwaite (Chair), Edna Healey, Isabel Quigly, Gillian Reynolds, Bernice Rubens

Winner:

The Bone People by Keri Hulme (Hodder & Stoughton)

Shortlist:

Illywhacker by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J. L. Carr (Viking)

The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing (Jonathan Cape)

The Bone People by Keri Hulme (Hodder & Stoughton)

Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris (Viking)

The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Judges:

Norman St John-Stevas (Chair), Nina Bawden, J. W. Lambert, Joanna Lumley, Marina Warner

Winner:

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Jonathan Cape)
    
Shortlist:

Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (Gollancz)

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Jonathan Cape)

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

In Custody by Anita Desai (Heinemann)

According to Mark by Penelope Lively (Heinemann)

Small World by David Lodge (Secker & Warburg)

Judges:

Richard Cobb (Chair), Anthony Curtis, Polly Devlin, John Fuller, Ted Rowlands

Winner:

Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

Shortlist:

Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury (Secker & Warburg)

Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller (Salamander)

The Illusionist by Anita Mason (Hamish Hamilton)

Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

Shame by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

Waterland by Graham Swift (Heinemann)

Judges:

Fay Weldon (Chair), Angela Carter, Terence Kilmartin, Peter Porter, Libby Purves

Winner:

Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally (Hodder & Stoughton)    

Shortlist:

Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden (Methuen)

An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd (Hamish Hamilton)

Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally (Hodder & Stoughton)   

Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell (Faber & Faber)

The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis (Duckworth)

Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo (Deutsch)

Judges:

John Carey (Chair), Paul Bailey, Frank Delaney, Janet Morgan, Lorna Sage

Winner: 

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist:

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (Deutsch)

The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing (Jonathan Cape)

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee (Macmillan)

Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark (Bodley Head)

The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas (Gollancz)

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

Judges:

Malcolm Bradbury (Chair), Brian Aldiss, Joan Bakewell, Samuel Hynes, Hermione Lee

Winner: 

Rites of Passage by William Golding (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist: 

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess (Hutchinson)

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (Heinemann)

Rites of Passage by William Golding (Faber & Faber)

The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (Viking)

No Country for Young Men by Julia O’Faolain (Viking)

Pascali’s Island by Barry Unsworth (Michael Joseph)

A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (Harvester Press)

Judges: 

David Daiches (Chair), Ronald Blythe, Margaret Forster, Claire Tomalin, Brian Wenham

Winner:

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (Collins)

Shortlist:

Confederates by Thomas Keneally (Collins)

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (Deutsch) 

Joseph by Julian Rathbone (Michael Joseph) 

Praxis by Fay Weldon (Hodder and Stoughton) 

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (Collins)

Judges: 

Asa Briggs (Chair), Benny Green, Michael Ratcliffe, Hilary Spurling, Paul Theroux

Winner:

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Shortlist:

Jake’s Thing by Kingsley Amis (Hutchinson)

Rumours of Rain by André Brink (W. H. Allen)

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (Duckworth)

God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam (Hamish Hamilton)

A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens (W. H. Allen)

Judges: 

A.J Ayer (Chair), Derwent May, P. H. Newby, Angela Huth, Clare Boylan

Winner:

Staying On by Paul Scott (Heinemann)

Shortlist:

Peter Smart’s Confessions by Paul Bailey (Jonathan Cape)

Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (Duckworth) 

Shadows on our Skin by Jennifer Johnston (Hamish Hamilton) 

The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively (Heinemann)

Staying On by Paul Scott (Heinemann)

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (Macmillan)

Judges: 

Philip Larkin (Chair), Beryl Bainbridge, Brendan Gil, David Hughes, Robin Ray

Winner:

Saville by David Storey (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist: 

An Instant in the Wind by André Brink (W. H. Allen)

Saville by David Storey (Jonathan Cape) 

Rising by R. C. Hutchinson (Michael Joseph)

The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore (Jonathan Cape)

King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone (Michael Joseph)

The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor (Bodley Head)

Judges: 

Walter Allen (Chair), Mary Wilson, Francis King

Winner: 

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (John Murray)

Shortlist:

Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally (Collins)

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (John Murray)

Judges: 

Angus Wilson (Chair), Peter Ackroyd, Susan Hill, Roy Fuller

Winners: 

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (Jonathan Cape)

Holiday by Stanley Middleton (Hutchinson)

Shortlist: 

Ending Up by Kingsley Amis (Jonathan Cape)

The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (Jonathan Cape)

Holiday by Stanley Middleton (Hutchinson)

In Their Wisdom by C. P. Snow (Macmillan)

Judges:

Ion Trewin (Chair), A. S. Byatt, Elizabeth Jane Howard

Winner: 

The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Shortlist: 

The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor (Michael Joseph)

The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Judges: 

Karl Miller (Chair), Edna O’Brien, Mary McCarthy

Winner: 

G. by John Berger (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Shortlist: 

The Bird of Night by Susan Hill (Hamish Hamilton)

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Angus & Robertson)

Pasmore by David Storey (Longman)

G. by John Berger (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Judges:

Cyril Connolly (Chair), George Steiner, Elizabeth Bowen

Winner: 

In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul (Deutsch)

Shortlist: 

The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy (Faber & Faber)

Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing (Jonathan Cape)

In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul (Deutsch)

St. Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson (Heinemann)

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (Chatto & Windus)

Judges: 

John Gross (Chair), Saul Bellow, John Fowles, Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee

Winner: 

The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (Eyre & Spottiswoode)

Shortlist:

John Brown’s Body by A. L. Barker (Hogarth)

Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen (Jonathan Cape)

Bruno’s Dream by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (Eyre & Spottiswoode)

Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel by William Trevor (Bodley Head)

The Conjunction by Terence Wheeler (Angus & Robertson)

Judges: 

David Holloway (Chair), Antonia Fraser, Ross Higgins, Richard Hoggart, Dame Rebecca West

Winner: 

Troubles by J.G Farrell (Phoenix) 

Shortlist:

The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden (Virago)

The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard (Virago) 

Troubles by J.G Farrell (Phoenix) 

Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault (Arrow) 

The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark (Penguin) 

The Vivisector by Patrick White (Vintage)

Judges:

Rachel Cooke, Katie Derham, Tobias Hill

Winner: 

Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist: 

Figures in a Landscape by Barry England (Jonathan Cape)

Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby (Faber & Faber)

Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

The Public Image by Muriel Spark (Macmillan)

From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams (Secker & Warburg) 

Judges:

W. L. Webb (Chair), David Farrer, Frank Kermode, Stephen Spender, Rebecca West