Portico Prize

Given by The Portico Library

104 Works / 106 Items 17,144 Books 843 Reviews ½ 3.8
Stages:
All, Winner (24), Shortlist (45), Longlist (37)
Years:
All, 2022 (15), 2020 (6), 2019 (8), 2015 (11), 2012 (21), 2010 (23), 2008 (8), 2006 (2), 2004 (1), 2002 (1), 2000 (1), 1995 (1), 1993 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1)

Winner 24

Shortlist 45

WorkYear
Ghosted: A Love Story by Jenn Ashworth2022
The Outsiders by James Corbett2022
The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain2022
Sea State: A Memoir by Tabitha Lasley2022
Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J. Morgan2022
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan2022
Ironopolis by Glen James Brown2020
The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir by Graham Caveney2020
Under the Rock by Benjamin Myers2020
The Mating Habits of Stags by Ray Robinson2020
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe2020
Common Ground by Rob Cowen2015
Boneland by Alan Garner2015
Her Birth by Rebecca Goss2015
Terror by Toby Martinez de las Rivas2015
Two countries by Katrina Porteous2015
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks2015
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink2015
Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts2015
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow2015
Walking Home by Simon Armitage2012
She's Leaving Home by Joan Bakewell2012
The Doll Princess by Tom Benn2012
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt2012
William Armstrong: Magician of the North by Henrietta Heald2012
The Hunger Trace by Edward Hogan2012
The Last Word by Mark Illis2012
Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay2012
Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last2012
The Retribution by Val McDermid2012
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers2012
Brief Lives: Elizabeth Gaskell by Alan Shelston2012
The Adult by Joe Stretch2012
Hungry, the Stars and Everything by Emma Jane Unsworth2012
Jews and other foreigners: Manchester and the rescue of the victims of European Fascism, 1933-40 by Bill Williams2012
Luke and Jon by Robert Williams2012
The Visiting Angel by Paul Wilson2012
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson2012
Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague by Keith Wrightson2012
A Mile of River by Judith Allnatt2008
Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie2008
The Damned Utd by David Peace2008
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin2008
Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot2008
Once Upon A Time In England by Helen Walsh2008

Longlist 37

WorkYear
The Blind Light by Stuart Evers2022
Mrs England by Stacey Halls2022
Are We Home Yet? by Katy Massey2022
The Khan by Saima Mir2022
Male Tears by Benjamin Myers2022
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu2022
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi2022
Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay by Jeff Young2022
Sensible Footwear : a girl's guide by Kate Charlesworth2019
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson2019
Us by Zaffar Kunial2019
Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now by Stuart Maconie2019
Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts2019
The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla2019
The Look Away by Richard Skelton2019
2020 by Kenneth Steven2019
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage2010
Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker2010
Bumping by Tony Bianchi2010
"A General Plague of Madness": The Civil Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660 by Stephen Bull2010
The River Ribble: A Local and Natural History by Malcolm Greenhalgh2010
The Radleys by Matt Haig2010
Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris2010
Derbyshire: A History by David Hey2010
Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill2010
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist by Tristram Hunt2010
This is How by M. J. Hyland2010
This is How by M. J. Hyland2010
Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955 by Angela V. John2010
The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan2010
Black Car Burning by Helen Mort2010
Slipless In Settle: A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket by Harry Pearson2010
Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley2010
The English Lakes: A History by Ian Thompson2010
Hercules and the Farmer's Wife: And Other Stories from a Cumbrian Art Gallery by Chris Wadsworth2010
The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street by Tony Williams2010
The Angels of Mona Terrace by Steve Wood2010

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