James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Given by University of Edinburgh

Other Names: James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist, James Tait Black Prize Shortlist
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Established in 1919, The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are Britain's oldest literary awards.

The prizes are awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for the best work of fiction and the show more best biography published in the previous year.

They are the only awards of their kind to be presented by a university and have acquired an international reputation for recognising excellence in biography and fiction that continues today.
The prizes were founded by Mrs Janet Coutts Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd. The winners are chosen by the Professor of English Literature at the University, who is assisted by PhD students in the shortlisting phase, a structure which is seen to lend the prizes a considerable gravitas.
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Stages:
All, Winner (216), Shortlist (182)
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Years:
All, 2024 (10), 2023 (5), 2022 (8), 2021 (8), 2020 (2), 2019 (8), 2018 (8), 2017 (2), 2016 (8), 2015 (8), 2014 (9), 2013 (8), 2012 (10), 2011 (6), 2010 (8), 2009 (10), 2008 (10), 2007 (10), 2006 (12), 2005 (12), 2004 (10), 2003 (6), 2002 (10), 2001 (9), 2000 (7), 1999 (10), 1998 (10), 1997 (10), 1996 (3), 1995 (2), 1994 (2), 1993 (2), 1992 (2), 1991 (2), 1990 (2), 1989 (2), 1988 (2), 1987 (2), 1986 (2), 1985 (2), 1984 (3), 1983 (2), 1982 (2), 1981 (3), 1980 (2), 1979 (2), 1978 (2), 1977 (2), 1976 (2), 1975 (2), 1974 (2), 1973 (2), 1972 (2), 1971 (2), 1970 (2), 1969 (2), 1968 (2), 1967 (1), 1966 (3), 1965 (2), 1964 (2), 1963 (2), 1962 (3), 1961 (2), 1960 (2), 1959 (2), 1958 (2), 1957 (1), 1956 (2), 1955 (2), 1954 (3), 1953 (2), 1952 (2), 1951 (2), 1950 (2), 1949 (2), 1948 (2), 1947 (3), 1946 (2), 1945 (2), 1944 (2), 1943 (2), 1942 (2), 1941 (2), 1940 (2), 1939 (2), 1938 (3), 1937 (2), 1936 (2), 1935 (2), 1934 (3), 1933 (2), 1932 (2), 1931 (2), 1930 (2), 1929 (2), 1928 (2), 1927 (3), 1926 (1), 1925 (3), 1924 (1), 1923 (2), 1922 (2), 1921 (2), 1920 (2), 1919 (2)
Announced:
March 27: Shortlist2024 Recent

Winner 216

WorkCategoryYear
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl PinckneyBiography2023
Demon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverFiction2023
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit ChaudhuriBiography2021
A Shock by Keith RidgwayFiction2021
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní GhríofaBiography2020
Lote by Shola von ReinholdFiction2020
The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter by George SzirtesBiography2019
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannFiction2019
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey HilsumBiography2018
Crudo by Olivia LaingFiction2018
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig BrownBiography2017
Attrib. and other stories by Eley WilliamsFiction2017
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura CummingBiography2016
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBrideFiction2016
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James ShapiroBiography2015
You Don't Have to Live Like This: A Novel by Benjamin MarkovitsFiction2015
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard BensonBiography2014
In the light of what we know by Zia Haider RahmanFiction2014
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione LeeBiography2013
Harvest by Jim CraceFiction2013
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Tanya HarrodBiography2012
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan WarnerFiction2012
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthyBiography2011
You & Me: A Novel by Padgett PowellFiction2011
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth by Hilary SpurlingBiography2010
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana SoliFiction2010
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies: A Life by John CareyBiography2009
The Children's Book by A.S. ByattFiction2009
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families by Michael HolroydBiography2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian BarryFiction2008
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary HillBiography2007
Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind BelbenFiction2007
The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S.Thomas by Byron RogersBiography2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthyFiction2006
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue PrideauxBiography2005
Saturday by Ian McEwanFiction2005
John Clare by Jonathan BateBiography2004
GB84 by David PeaceFiction2004
Charles Darwin: A Biography: Volume 2: The Power of Place by Janet BrowneBiography2003
Personality by Andrew O'HaganFiction2003
The Lunar Men: Five Friends whose Curiosity Changed the World by Jenny UglowBiography2002
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen2002
John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 by Robert SkidelskyBiography2001
Something Like a House by Sid SmithFiction2001
Experience by Martin AmisBiography2000
White Teeth by Zadie SmithFiction2000
George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn HughesBiography1999
Renegade or Halo 2 by Timothy MoFiction1999
The Life of Thomas More by Peter AckroydBiography1998
Master Georgie by Beryl BainbridgeFiction1998
W. B. Yeats : A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 by R. F. FosterBiography1997
Ingenious Pain by Andrew MillerFiction1997
Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCullochBiography1996
Last Orders by Graham SwiftFiction1996
Justine by Alice ThompsonFiction1996
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta SerenyBiography1995
The Prestige by Christopher PriestFiction1995
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris LessingBiography1994
The Folding Star by Alan HollinghurstFiction1994
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage by Richard HolmesBiography1993
Crossing the River by Caryl PhillipsFiction1993
Going West by Maurice Gee1992
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles NichollBiography1992
Sacred Country by Rose TremainFiction1992
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian DesmondBiography1991
Downriver by Iain SinclairFiction1991
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire TomalinBiography1990
Brazzaville Beach by William BoydFiction1990
Federico García Lorca: A Life by Ian GibsonBiography1989
A Disaffection by James KelmanFiction1989
Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein's Life, 1889-1921 by Brian McGuinnessBiography1988
A Season in the West by Piers Paul ReadFiction1988
Victor Gollancz: A Biography by Ruth Dudley EdwardsBiography1987
The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay BrownFiction1987
Helen Waddell by Felicitas CorriganBiography1986
Persephone by Jenny JosephFiction1986
Jonathan Swift, a Hypocrite Reversed: A Critical Biography (Oxford Paperbacks) by David NokesBiography1985
Winter Garden by Robert EdricFiction1985
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life by Lyndall GordonBiography1984
Empire of the Sun by J. G. BallardFiction1984
Nights at the Circus by Angela CarterFiction1984
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 by Alan WalkerBiography1983
Allegro Postillions by Jonathan KeatesFiction1983
James Joyce by Richard EllmannBiography1982
On the Black Hill by Bruce ChatwinFiction1982
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among the Lions by Victoria GlendinningBiography1981
Midnight's Children by Salman RushdieFiction1981
The Mosquito Coast by Paul TherouxFiction1981
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard MartinBiography1980
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. CoetzeeFiction1980
Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography by Brian FinneyBiography1979
Darkness Visible by William GoldingFiction1979
The Older Hardy by Robert GittingsBiography1978
Plumb by Maurice GeeFiction1978
Chateaubriand by George D. PainterBiography1977
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le CarréFiction1977
A life of Anton Chekhov by Ronald HingleyBiography1976
Doctor Copernicus by John BanvilleFiction1976
Cockburn's millennium by Karl MillerBiography1975
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian MooreFiction1975
Samuel Johnson by John WainBiography1974
Monsieur, or The Prince of Darkness by Lawrence DurrellFiction1974
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane FoxBiography1973
The Black Prince by Iris MurdochFiction1973
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin BellBiography1972
G. by John BergerFiction1972
Lewis Namier : a biography by Julia NamierBiography1971
A Guest of Honour by Nadine GordimerFiction1971
Lord Palmerston by Jasper RidleyBiography1970
The bird of paradise by Lily Powell FroissardFiction1970
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia FraserBiography1969
Eva Trout by Elizabeth BowenFiction1969
George Eliot: A Biography by Gordon S. HaightBiography1968
The Gasteropod by Maggie RossFiction1968
Charlotte Brontë: the evolution of genius by Winifred GerinBiography1967
The Life of William Harvey by Geoffrey KeynesBiography1966
Such by Christine Brooke-RoseFiction1966
Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan HigginsFiction1966
William Wordsworth: The Later Years, 1803-1850 by Mary MoormanBiography1965
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel SparkFiction1965
Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed by Elizabeth LongfordBiography1964
The Ice Saints by Frank TuohyFiction1964
John Keble; a study in limitations by Georgina BattiscombeBiography1963
A Slanting Light by Gerda CharlesFiction1963
Newman: Light in Winter by Meriol TrevorBiography1962
Newman: The Pillar of the Cloud by Meriol TrevorBiography1962
Act of Destruction by Ronald HardyFiction1962
Joseph Ashby of Tysoe, 1859-1919 : a study of English village life by M. K. AshbyBiography1961
The Ha-Ha by Jennifer DawsonFiction1961
Dean Inge by Adam FoxBiography1960
Imperial Caesar by Rex WarnerFiction1960
A biography of Edward Marsh by Christopher HassallBiography1959
The Devil's Advocate by Morris WestFiction1959
The History of Fanny Burney by Joyce HemlowBiography1958
The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot by Angus WilsonFiction1958
At Lady Molly's by Anthony PowellFiction1957
Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work and Friends by St. John ErvineBiography1956
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose MacaulayFiction1956
Thomas Gray: A biography by Robert Wyndham Ketton-CremerBiography1955
Mother and Son by Ivy Compton-BurnettFiction1955
Warren Hastings by Keith FeilingBiography1954
The Masters by C.P. SnowFiction1954
The New Men by C.P. SnowFiction1954
Sir John Moore by Carola OmanBiography1953
Troy Chimneys by Margaret KennedyFiction1953
Stanley Baldwin by G. M. YoungBiography1952
Men at Arms by Evelyn WaughFiction1952
Leslie Stephen, his thought and character : in relation to his time by Baron Noel Gilroy Annan AnnanBiography1951
Father Goose by Chapman MortimerFiction1951
Florence Nightingale by Cecil Woodham-SmithBiography1950
Through the Valley by Robert HenriquesFiction1950
W. E. Henley by John ConnellBiography1949
The Far Cry by Emma SmithFiction1949
Great Doctor Burney: His Life, His Travels, His Works, His Family, and His Friends by Percy Alfred ScholesBiography1948
The Heart of the Matter by Graham GreeneFiction1948
John Locke: A Biography by Maurice CranstonBiography1947
English naturalists from Neckam to Ray; a study of the making of the modern world by Charles E. RavenBiography1947
Eustace and Hilda by L. P. HartleyFiction1947
The Duke by Richard AldingtonBiography1946
Poor Man's Tapestry by Oliver OnionsFiction1946
Life, work and setting of Philip Wilson Steer by D. S. MacCollBiography1945
TRAVELLERS by L. A. G. StrongFiction1945
William the Silent by C. V. WedgwoodBiography1944
Young Tom; or, Very mixed company by Forrest ReidFiction1944
Fourscore Years--an Autobiography by G. G. CoultonBiography1943
Tales from Bective Bridge by Mary LavinFiction1943
Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria's Private Secretary by Arthur PonsonbyBiography1942
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-enFiction, Arthur Waley translation1942
King George V, a personal memoir, by John GoreBiography1941
A House of Children by Joyce CaryFiction1941
Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor by H. F. M. PrescottBiography1940
The Voyage by Charles MorganFiction1940
English scholars, 1660-1730 by David Charles DouglasBiography1939
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous HuxleyFiction1939
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Biographical Study by E. K. ChambersBiography1938
Flying Colours by C. S. ForesterFiction1938
A Ship of the Line by C. S. ForesterFiction1938
John Knox by Eustace Percy, Baron Percy of NewcastleBiography1937
Highland River by Neil Miller GunnFiction1937
A flame in sunlight : the life and work of Thomas de Quincey by Hon. Edward Sackville-WestBiography1936
South Riding by Winifred Holtby1936
Thomas More by R. W. ChambersBiography1935
The Root and the Flower by L. H. MyersFiction1935
Elizabeth I by J. E. NealeBiography1934
Claudius the God by Robert GravesFiction1934
I, Claudius by Robert GravesFiction1934
The book of Talbot by Violet CliftonBiography1933
England, Their England by A. G. MacdonellFiction1933
The Life of Mary Kingsley by Stephen GwynnBiography1932
Boomerang by Helen SimpsonFiction1932
The letters of David Hume by David HumeBiography1931
Without My Cloak by Kate O'BrienFiction1931
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer by Francis Yeats-BrownBiography1930
Miss Mole by E. H. YoungFiction1930
The Stricken Deer: Or the Life of William Cowper by David CecilBiography1929
The Good Companions by J. B. PriestleyFiction1929
Montrose by John BuchanBiography1928
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried SassoonFiction1928
James Bryce (Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.), Volume 1 by H. A. L. FisherBiography1927
James Bryce (Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.), Volume 2 (Viscount Bryce of Dechmont ∙ O.M.) by H. A. L. FisherBiography1927
PORTRAIT OF CLARE by Francis Brett YoungFiction1927
Adam's Breed by Radclyffe HallFiction1926
The portrait of Zélide by Geoffrey ScottBiography1925
John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church 2 Volumes by Herbert B. WorkmanBiography1925
The Informer by Liam O'FlahertyFiction1925
A Passage to India by E. M. ForsterFiction1924
Memoirs with a full account of The Great Malaria Problem and its Solution by Ronald RossBiography1923
Riceyman Steps by Arnold BennettFiction1923
Earlham by Percy LubbockBiography1922
Lady into Fox by David GarnettFiction1922
Queen Victoria by Lytton StracheyBiography1921
Memoirs of a Midget by Walter De la MareFiction1921
Lord Grey of The Reform Bill, Being the Life of Charles, Second Earl Grey by George Macaulay TrevelyanBiography1920
The Lost Girl by D. H. LawrenceFiction1920
Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A memoir by Garrison KeillorBiography1919
The Secret City by Hugh WalpoleFiction1919

Shortlist 182

WorkCategoryYear
This is Not Miami by Fernanda MelchorBiography2024
Traces of Enayat by Iman MersalBiography2024
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian PenmanBiography2024
Ordinary Notes by Christina SharpeBiography2024
Always Reaching: The Selected Writings of Anne Truitt by Anne TruittBiography2024
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul by Ann WroeBiography2024
Lori & Joe by Amy ArnoldFiction2024
Open Throat by Henry HokeFiction2024
Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'ReganFiction2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis WrightFiction2024
Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha AlharthiFiction2023
After Sappho: A Novel by Selby Wynn SchwartzFiction2023
Bolla by Pajtim StatovciFiction2023
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif AbdurraqibBiography2022
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit ChaudhuriBiography2022
In Memory of Memory by Maria StepanovaBiography2022
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances WilsonBiography2022
English Magic by Uschi GatwardFiction2022
Libertie by Kaitlyn GreenidgeFiction2022
A Shock by Keith RidgwayFiction2022
Memorial by Bryan WashingtonFiction2022
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate FullagarBiography2021
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir HazareesinghBiography2021
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca SolnitBiography2021
Alligator by Dima AlzayatFiction2021
A Girl is A Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiFiction2021
A Children's Bible by Lydia MilletFiction2021
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by AkalaBiography2019
The Life of Stuff: A memoir about the mess we leave behind by Susannah WalkerBiography2019
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library by Edward Wilson-LeeBiography2019
Murmur by Will EavesFiction2019
Sight by Jessie GreengrassFiction2019
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-SpiresFiction2019
The Day That Went Missing by Richard BeardBiography2018
Ali: A Life by Jonathan EigBiography2018
The dawn watch: Joseph Conrad in a global world by Maya JasanoffBiography2018
American War by Omar El AkkadFiction2018
White Tears by Hari KunzruFiction2018
First Love by Gwendoline RileyFiction2018
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash by Alexander MastersBiography2016
A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby by Joe MoshenskaBiography2016
Rasputin by Douglas SmithBiography2016
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo BakerFiction2016
What Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellFiction2016
The Sport of Kings by C. E. MorganFiction2016
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David HareBiography2015
Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by Sarah KnightsBiography2015
John Aubrey: my own life by Ruth ScurrBiography2015
The Wolf Border by Sarah HallFiction2015
The First Bad Man by Miranda JulyFiction2015
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry2015
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan DaviesBiography2014
Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel HolmesBiography2014
Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinnessBiography2014
Harvest by Jim CraceFiction2014
Dear Thief by Samantha HarveyFiction2014
Fourth of July Creek by Smith HendersonFiction2014
We are Not Ourselves by Matthew ThomasFiction2014
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James BrownBiography2013
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung ChangBiography2013
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas ShakespeareBiography2013
Benediction by Kent HarufFiction2013
The Flamethrowers by Rachel KushnerFiction2013
All the Birds, Singing by Evie WyldFiction2013
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael GorraBiography2012
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning MarableBiography2012
Joseph Anton by Salman RushdieBiography2012
William Harvey: A Life in Circulation by Thomas WrightBiography2012
The Panopticon by Jenni FaganFiction2012
The Big Music [selected papers] by Kirsty GunnFiction2012
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben LernerFiction2012
There But For The by Ali SmithFiction2012
Ben Jonson: a life by Ian DonaldsonBiography2011
Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie HarriesBiography2011
Solace by Belinda McKeonFiction2011
Snowdrops by A. D. MillerFiction2011
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg GrandinBiography2010
A Life in Pictures by Alasdair GrayBiography2010
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster by Wendy MoffatBiography2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellFiction2010
La Rochelle: A Novel by Michael NathFiction2010
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer2010
Cheever: A Life by Blake BaileyBiography2009
The English Opium Eater by Robert MorrisonBiography2009
Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan by Jann ParryBiography2009
Muriel Spark : The biography by Martin StannardBiography2009
Strangers by Anita BrooknerFiction2009
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo IshiguroFiction2009
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif LarsenFiction2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFiction2009
Arthur Miller by Christopher BigsbyBiography2008
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald MartinBiography2008
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila RowbothamBiography2008
Chagall: A Biography by Jackie WullschlagerBiography2008
Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew CrumeyFiction2008
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed HanifFiction2008
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-JonesFiction2008
A Mercy by Toni MorrisonFiction2008
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell by Michael GrayBiography2007
Edith Wharton by Hermione LeeBiography2007
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag MontefioreBiography2007
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard ReevesBiography2007
The Devil's Footprints by John BurnsideFiction2007
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidFiction2007
A Far Country by Daniel MasonFiction2007
Salvage by Gee WilliamsFiction2007
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France by Carmen CallilBiography2006
Mellon: An American Life by David CannadineBiography2006
John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity by Gillian DarleyBiography2006
George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie FergussonBiography2006
The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to Tibet by Kate TeltscherBiography2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFiction2006
Seven Lies by James LasdunFiction2006
The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice MunroFiction2006
Electricity by Ray RobinsonFiction2006
The Night Watch by Sarah WatersFiction2006
Siegfried Sassoon: A Life by Max EgremontBiography2005
Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce by Nigel FarndaleBiography2005
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger KnightBiography2005
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander MastersBiography2005
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger PearsonBiography2005
Praying Mantis by André BrinkFiction2005
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroFiction2005
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma IwealaFiction2005
Missing Mom by Joyce Carol OatesFiction2005
The Accidental by Ali SmithFiction2005
Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer" by David CesaraniBiography2004
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan CoeBiography2004
A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola LaceyBiography2004
Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797 by John SugdenBiography2004
Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884-1920 by Michael W. YoungBiography2004
Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan BennettFiction2004
Cloud Atlas by David MitchellFiction2004
Psychoraag by Suhayl SaadiFiction2004
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William DalrympleBiography2003
Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline MooreheadBiography2003
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesFiction2003
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberFiction2003
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda CarterBiography2002
Silvertown: An East End Family Memoir by Melanie McGrathBiography2002
Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats by Ann SaddlemyerBiography2002
Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey WallBiography2002
Fragrant Harbour by John LanchesterFiction2002
Family Matters by Rohinton MistryFiction2002
Unless by Carol ShieldsFiction2002
The Story of Lucy Gault by William TrevorFiction2002
Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian KershawBiography2001
Frantz Fanon: A Biography by David MaceyBiography2001
Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer by James McDermottBiography2001
A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany by Mark RosemanBiography2001
The Body Artist by Don DeLilloFiction2001
Atonement by Ian McEwanFiction2001
Number9Dream by David MitchellFiction2001
The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce by Miles BredinBiography2000
Rimbaud: A Biography by Graham RobbBiography2000
The Hiding Place by Trezza AzzopardiFiction2000
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiFiction2000
In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence NorfolkFiction2000
John Soane: An Accidental Romantic by Gillian DarleyBiography1999
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel GrundyBiography1999
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael IgnatieffBiography1999
Mandela: The Authorized Biography by Anthony SampsonBiography1999
The Leper's Companions by Julia BlackburnFiction1999
A Harlot's Progress by David DabydeenFiction1999
Headlong by Michael FraynFiction1999
The Harvest by Christopher HartFiction1999
D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence (The Cambridge Biography - D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930) (Volume 3) by David EllisBiography1998
The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy by Kenneth R. JohnstonBiography1998
Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham RobbBiography1998
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana SouhamiBiography1998
Man or Mango? by Lucy EllmannFiction1998
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian FaulksFiction1998
The Last King of Scotland by Giles FodenFiction1998
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus MillsFiction1998
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee AndersonBiography1997
Standing in the Sun: A Life of J.M.W. Turner by Anthony BaileyBiography1997
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan DimblebyBiography1997
Turner by James HamiltonBiography1997
Jack Maggs by Peter CareyFiction1997
Feeding the Ghosts by Fred D'AguiarFiction1997
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLavertyFiction1997
Enduring Love by Ian McEwanFiction1997

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