2009
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
2008
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2007
The Gathering by Anne Enright
2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2005
The Sea by John Banville
2004
The Line of Beauty by
Alan Hollinghurst
2003
The Blind Assassin by
Margaret Atwood 2002
Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel 2001
True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey 2000
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood 1999
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee 1998
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
1997
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 1996
Last Orders, Graham Swift 1995
The Ghost Road,
Pat Barker 1994
How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman 1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle 1992
The English Patient,
Michael Ondaatje; Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth 1991
The Famished Road, Ben Okri 1990
Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt 1989
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro 1988
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey 1987
Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively 1986
The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis 1985
The Bone People by
Keri Hulme
(UK,
US) 1984
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner 1983
Life & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee 1982
Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally 1981
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 1980
Rites of Passage, William Golding 1979
Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald 1978
The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch 1977
Staying On, Paul Scott 1976
Saville, David Storey 1975
Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1974
The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer; Holiday, Stanley Middleton 1973
The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell 1972
G.: A Novel, John Berger 1971
In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul 1970
The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens 1969
Something to Answer For, P.H. Newby
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