| Year |
Author(s) |
Title |
| 2007 |
Anne Enriht |
The Gathering |
| 2006 |
Kiran Desai |
The Inheritance of Loss |
| 2005 |
John Banville |
The Sea |
| 2004 |
Alan Hollinghurst |
The Line of Beauty |
| 2003 |
DBC Pierre |
Vernon God Little |
| 2002 |
Yann Martel |
Life of Pi |
| 2001 |
Peter Carey |
True History of the Kelly Gang |
| 2000 |
Margaret Atwood |
The Blind Assassin |
| 1999 |
J M Coetzee |
Disgrace |
| 1998 |
Ian McEwan |
Amsterdam |
| 1997 |
Arundhati Roy |
The God of Small Things |
| 1996 |
Graham Swift |
Last Orders |
| 1995 |
Pat Barker |
The Ghost Road |
| 1994 |
James Kelman |
How Late It Was, How Late |
| 1993 |
Roddy Doyle |
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| 1992 Joint |
Michael Ondaatje &
Barry Unsworth |
The English Patient &
Sacred Hunger |
| 1991 |
Ben Okri |
The Famished Road |
| 1990 |
A S Byatt |
Possession |
| 1989 |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Remains of the Day |
| 1988 |
Peter Carey |
Oscar and Lucinda |
| 1987 |
Penelope Lively |
Moon Tiger |
| 1986 |
Kingsley Amis |
The Old Devils |
| 1985 |
Keri Hulme |
The Bone People |
| 1984 |
Anita Brookner |
Hotel du Lac |
| 1983 |
J M Coetzee |
Life & Times of Michael K |
| 1982 |
Thomas Keneally |
Schindler's Ark |
| 1981 |
Salman Rushdie |
Midnight's Children |
| 1980 |
William Golding |
Rites of Passage |
| 1979 |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
Offshore |
| 1978 |
Iris Murdoch |
The Sea |
| 1977 |
Paul Scott |
Staying On |
| 1976 |
David Storey |
Saville |
| 1975 |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Heat and Dust |
| 1974 Joint |
Nadine Gordimer &
Stanley Middleton |
The Conservationist &
Holiday |
| 1973 |
J G Farrell |
The Siege of Krishnapur |
| 1972 |
John Berger |
G |
| 1971 |
V S Naipaul |
In a Free State |
| 1970 |
Bernice Rubens |
The Elected Member |
| 1969 |
P H Newby |
Something to Answer For |