• Arthur & George, by Julian Barnes
• A Long Long Way, by Sebastian Barry
• Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Accidental, by Ali Smith
• On Beauty, by Zadie Smith

• Bitter Fruit, by Achmat Dangor
• The Electric Michelangelo, by Sarah Hall
• Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
• The Master, by Colm Tóibín
• I'll go to Bed at Noon, by Gerard Woodward

• Brick Lane, by Monica Ali
• Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
• The Good Doctor, by Damon Galgut
• Notes on a Scandal, by Zoë Heller
• Astonishing Splashes Of Colour, by Clare Morrall

• Family Matters, by Rohinton Mistry
• Unless, by Carol Shields
• The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor
• Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
• Dirt Music, by Tim Winton

Shortlist:

• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Oxygen by Andrew Miller
• number9dream by David Mitchell
• Hotel World by Ali Smith
• The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert

Winner:  The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Shortlist:

• The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
• The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
• The Deposition of Father by Brian O’Doherty

Winner:  Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Shortlist:

• Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
• Headlong by Michael Frayn
• Our Fathers by Andrew O’Hagan
• The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
• The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin

Winner:  Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

Shortlist:

• Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
• England, England by Julian Barnes
• The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
• Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
• The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

Winner:  The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Shortlist:

• Quarantine by Jim Crace
• The Underground Man by Mick Jackson
• Grace Notes by Bernard Mac Laverty
• Europa by Tim Parks
• The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John

Winner:  Last Orders by Graham Swift

Shortlist:

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
• Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
• The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Winner:  The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

Shortlist:

• In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
• The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
• Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
• The Riders by Tim Winton

Winner:  How Late it was, How Late by James Kelman

Shortlist:

• Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
• Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
• Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
• Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh

Winner:  Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

Shortlist:

• Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
• Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
• Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Winners:

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

• Serenity House by Christopher Hope
• The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
• Daughters of the House by Michele Roberts

Winner:  The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Shortlist:

• Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
• The Van by Roddy Doyle
• Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
• The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
• Reading Turgenev (From TwoLives) by William Trevor

Winner:  Possession by A.S. Byatt

Shortlist:

• An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Amongst Women by John McGahern
• Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
• Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

Winner:  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Shortlist:

• Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville
• Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford
• A Disaffection by James Kelman
• Restoration by Rose Tremain

Winner:  Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Shortlist:

• Utz by Bruce Chatwin
• The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Nice Work by David Lodge
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• The Lost Father by Marina Warner

Winner:  Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Shortlist:

• Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
• Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
• Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden
• The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore
• The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch

Winner:  The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

Shortlist:

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Gabriel’s Lament by Paul Bailey
• What’s Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo

Winner:  The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Shortlist:

• Illywhacker by Peter Carey
• The Battle of Pollacks Crossing by J.L. Carr
• The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
• Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris
• The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch

Winner:  Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Shortlist:

• Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
• Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
• In Custody by Anita Desai
• According to Mark by Penelope Lively
• Small World by David Lodge

Winner:  Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee

Shortlist:

• Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
• Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
• The Illusionist by Anita Mason
• Shame by Salman Rushdie
• Waterland by Graham Swift

Winner:  Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally

Shortlist:

• Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden
• An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
• Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell
• The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
• Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

Winner:  Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Shortlist:

• Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
• The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
• The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
• Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee
• Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
• The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

Winner:  Rites of Passage by William Golding

Shortlist:

• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
• Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
• The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
• No Country for Young Men by Julia O’Faolain
• Pascali’s Island by Barry Unsworth
• A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

Winner:  Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

Shortlist:

• Confederates by Thomas Keneally
• A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
• Joseph by Julian Rathbone
• Praxis by Fay Weldon

Winner:  The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

Shortlist:

• Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
• Rumours of Rain by Andre Brink
• The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
• God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
• A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens

Winner:  Staying On by Paul Scott

Shortlist:

• Peter Smart's Confessions by Paul Bailey
• Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
• Shadows on our Skin by Jennifer Johnston
• The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
• Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

Winner:  Saville by David Storey

Shortlist:

• An Instant in the Wind by Andre Brink
• Rising by R.C. Hutchinson
• The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore
• King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone
• The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

Winner:  Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Shortlist: Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally

Winners:
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
Holiday by Stanley Middleton

Shortlist:

• Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
• The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
• In Their Wisdom by C.P. Snow

Winner:  The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell

Shortlist:

• The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Green Equinox by Michael Joseph
• The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

Winner:  G. by John Berger

Shortlist:

• Bird of Night by Susan Hill
• The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
• Pasmore by David Storey

Winner:  In A Free State by V.S. Naipaul

Shortlist:

• The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy
• Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
• St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler
• Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
• Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

Winner:  The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

Shortlist:

• John Brown's Body by A.L. Barker
• Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
• Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch
• Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor
• The Conjunction by T.W. Wheeler

Winner:  Something to Answer For  by P.H. Newby

Shortlist:

• Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
• Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley
• The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
• The Public Image by Muriel Spark
• From Scenes Like These by G.M. Williams