John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

2010
Winner
The Still Point by Amy Sackville

Shortlist
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine
Witch Light (Corrag) by Susan Fletcher
A Light Song of Light by Kei Miller
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Bomber County by Daniel Swift

2009
Winner
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

Shortlist
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
The Striped World by Emma Jones
Six Months in Sudan by James Maskalyk
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart

2008
Winner
The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings

Shortlist
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Selling Your Father's Bones by Brian Schofield

2006
Winner
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall

Shortlist
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley
Occupational Hazards by Rory Stewart

2005
Winner
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

Shortlist
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
The State of the Prisons by Sinéad Morrissey
Newfoundland by Rebecca Ray
Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok

2004
Winner
Boy A by Jonathan Trigell

Shortlist
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People by Neil Bennun
The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart

2003
Winner
Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson

2002
Winner
Virgins of Venice by Mary Laven

Winner (withdrawn)
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru

2001
Winner
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones

2000
Winner
Leadville by Edward Platt

Shortlist
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden
Hungry for Home Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland by Cole Moreton
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
1999
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

1998
The Ugliest House in the World by Peter Ho Davies

1997
Eclipse of the Sun by Phil Whitaker

1996
Heading Inland by Nicola Barker

1995
Motel Nirvana by Melanie McGrath

1994
What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy) by Jonathan Coe

1993
On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul by Jason Goodwin

1992
Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale

1991
Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by AL Kennedy

1990
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk

1989
Sylvia Townsend Warner by Claire Harman

1988
The March Fence by Matthew Yorke

1987
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

1986
Loving Roger by Tim Parks

1985
The Laird of Abbotsford by AN Wilson

1984
Dangerous Play Andrew Motion

1983
The Slow Train to Milan by Lisa St Aubin de Terán

1982
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd

1980
The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea by Desmond Hogan

1979
The Shining Mountain by Peter Boardman

1978
The Sweets of Pimlico by AN Wilson

1977
Vorticism & Abstract Art in the First Machine Age by Richard Cork

1975
Knuckle by David Hare
Cushing's Crusade by Tim Jeal

1974
The Girl Who Passed for Normal by Hugh Fleetwood

1973
A Warm Gun by Peter Smalley

1972
The Albatross by Susan Hill

1971
Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul

1970
The People's War by Angus Calder

1969
Without a City Wall by Melvyn Bragg

1968
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter

1967
The Seahorse by Anthony Masters

1966
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

1965
The White Father by Julian Mitchell

1964
Up the Junction by Nell Dunn

1963
Two Lives by Peter Marshall

1962
An Introduction to the House of Commons by Robert Rhodes James
A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems by Edward Lucie-Smith

1961
Flight into Camden by David Storey

1960
At Fever Pitch by David Caute

1959
A Long Way from London by Dan Jacobson

1958
The Mystic Masseur by VS Naipaul

1957
The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond

1956
Voices Under the Window by John Hearne

1955
The Moon to Play With by John Wiles

1954
The Hostile Sun by Tom Stacey

1953
The Return Home by Rachel Trickett

1951
The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard

1950
Adventure Lit Their Star by Kenneth Allsop

1949
Maiden's Trip by Emma Smith

1948
The Wind Cannot Read by Richard Mason

1947
Moondrop to Gascony by Anne-Marie Walters

1946
My Bird Sings by Oriel Malet

1945
The Sea Eagle by James Aldridge

1944
The Last Inspection by Alun Lewis

1943
Beauty for Ashes by Morwenna Donnelly

1942
Sunk by a Mine by Michael Richey

Best of the James Tait Black (2012)

Winner
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

Shortlist
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
A Disaffection by James Kelman
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

2017
Winner

The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear  McBride

Shortlist

A Country Road by Jo Baker

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan

2015
You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits

2014
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman

2013
Harvest by Jim Crace

2012
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner

2011
You and I by Padgett Powell

2010
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

2009
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt

2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

2007
Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben

2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2005
Saturday by Ian McEwan

2004
GB84 by David Peace

2003
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan

2002
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

2001
Something Like a House by Sid Smith

2000
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

1999
Renegade or Halo2 by Timothy Mo

1998
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge

1997
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller

1996
Last Orders by Graham Swift

1996
Justine by Alice Thompson

1995
The Prestige by Christopher Priest

1994
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

1993
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

1992
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain

1991
Downriver by Iain Sinclair

1990
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd

1989
A Disaffection by James Kelman

1988
A Season In The West by Piers Paul Read

1987
The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown

1986
Persephone by Jenny Joseph

1985
Winter Garden by Robert Edric

1984
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

1983
Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates

1982
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

1981
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

1981
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

1980
Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee

1979
Darkness Visible by William Golding

1978
Plumb by Maurice Gee

1977
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré

1976
Doctor Copernicus by John Banville

1975
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore

1974
Monsieur, Or The Prince Of Darkness by Lawrence Durrell

1973
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

1972
G by John Berger

1971
A Guest Of Honour by Nadine Gordimer

1969
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen

1968
The Gasteropod by Maggie Ross

1967
Jerusalem The Golden by Margaret Drabble

1966
Such by Christine Brooke-Rose

1966
Langrishe, Go Down by Aiden Higgins

1965
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark

1964
The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy

1963
A Slanting Light by Gerda Charles

1962
Act Of Destruction by Ronald Hardy

1961
The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson

1960
Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner

1959
The Devil's Advocate by Morris West

1958
The Middle Age Of Mrs Eliot by Angus Wilson

1957
At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell

1956
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay

1955
Mother And Son by Ivy Compton-Burnett

1954
The New Men and The Masters in sequence by CP Snow

1953
Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy

1952
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh

1951
Father Goose by WC Chapman-Mortimer

1950
Along The Valley by Robert Henriquez

1949
The Far Cry by Emma Smith

1948
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

1947
Eustace And Hilda by LP Hartley

1946
Poor Man's Tapestry by G Oliver Onions

1945
Travellers by LAG Strong

1944
Young Tom by Forrest Reid

1943
Tales From Bective Bridge by Mary Lavin

1942
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en

1941
A House Of Children by Joyce Cary

1940
The Voyage by Charles Morgan

1939
After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by Aldous Huxley

1938
A Ship Of The Line by CS Forester
Flying Colours by CS Forester

1937
Highland River by Neil M Gunn

1936
South Riding by Winifred Holtby

1935
The Root And The Flower by LH Myers

1934
I, Claudius by Robert Graves

1933
England, Their England by AG Macdonell

1932
Boomerang by Helen Simpson

1931
Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien

1930
Miss Mole by EH Young

1929
The Good Companions by JB Priestley

1928
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

1927
Portrait Of Clare by Francis Brett Young

1926
Adam's Breed by Radclyffe Hall

1925
The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty

1924
A Passage to India by EM Forster

1923
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett

1922
Lady into Fox by David Garnett

1921
Memoirs Of A Midget by Walter de la Mare

1920
The Lost Girl by DH Lawrence

1919
The Secret City by Hugh Walpole

Hawthornden Prize

2017
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift

2016
The Past by Tessa Hadley

2015
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin

2014
Dear Boy by Emily Berry

2013
Out There by Jamie McKendrick

2012
There but for the… by Ali Smith

2011
What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam

2010
A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald

2009
The World Is What It Is by Patrick French

2008
Darkmans by Nicola Barker

2007
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland

2006
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters

2005
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright

2004
John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate

2003
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes

2002
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy

2001
Hey Yeah Right Get a Life by Helen Simpson

2000
The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley

1999
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

1998
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa by Charles Nicholl

1997
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

1996
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel

1995
Collected Poems by James Michie

1994
In the Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears

1993
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow

1992
Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount

1991
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin

1990
Short Afternoons by Kit Wright

1989
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett

1988
Behind the Wall: A Journey through China by Colin Thubron

1983
Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates

1982
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

1981
St. Kilda's Parliament by Douglas Dunn

1980
Arcadia by Christopher Reid

1979
Kindergarten by PS Rushforth

1978
Walter by David Cook

1977
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

1976
Falstaff by Robert Nye

1975
Changing Places by David Lodge

1974
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

1970
Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read

1969
King Log by Geoffrey Hill

1968
Early Renaissance by Michael Levey

1967
The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn

1965
The Old Boys by William Trevor

1964
Mr Stone and the Knights Companion by VS Naipaul

1963
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne

1962
The Sun Doctor by Robert Shaw

1961
Lupercal by Ted Hughes

1960
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe

1958
A Beginning by Dom Moraes

1944
Letters to Malaya by Martyn Skinner

1943
The Cruel Solstice & The Iron Laurel by Sidney Keyes

1942
England Is My Village by John Llewellyn Rhys

1941
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

1940
London Fabric by James Pope-Hennessy

1939
Penthesperon by Christopher Hassall

1938
In Parenthesis by David Jones

1937
A Trophy of Arms by Ruth Pitter

1936
Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh

1935
I, Claudius by Robert Graves

1934
Lost Horizon by James Hilton

1933
Collected Poems by Vita Sackville-West

1932
The Fountain by Charles Morgan

1931
Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien

1930
The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis

1929
The Stricken Deer by Lord David Cecil

1928
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

1927
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson

1926
The Land by Vita Sackville-West

1925
Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey

1924
The Spanish Farm by Ralph Hale Mottram

1923
Lady into Fox by David Garnett

1922
The Shepherd by Edmund Blunden

1921
The Death of Society by Romer Wilson

1920
Poems New and Old by John Freeman

1919
The Queen of China by Edwards Shanks