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Book of the Year

2011   Pure by Andrew Miller (1.24.12)
2010  The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O’Farrell

2009  A Scattering - Christopher Reid
2008  The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
2007  Day - A. L. Kennedy
2006  The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
2005  Matisse the Master - Hilary Spurling
2004  Small Island - Andrea Levy
2003  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
2002  Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self - Claire Tomalin
2001  The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book III - Philip Pullman
2000  English Passengers - Matthew Kneale

1999  Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Seamus Heaney
1998  Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters - Erica Wagner
1997  Tales from Ovid - Ted Hughes
1996  The Spirit Level - Seamus Heaney
1995  Behind the Sciences at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
1994  Felicia's Journey - William Trevor
1993  Theory of War - Joan Brady
1992  Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
1991  The Queen of the Tambourine - Jane Gardam
1990  Hopeful Monsters - Nicholas Mosley

1989  Coleridge Volume 1 Early Visions 1772 1804 - Richard Holmes
1988  Comforts of Madness - Paul Sayer
1987  Under the Eye of the Clock: The Life Story of Christopher Nolan - Christopher Nolan
1986  An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
1985  Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
1984  Kruger's Alp - Christopher Hope
1983  Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
1982  Young Shoulders - John Wain
1981  Silver's City - Maurice Leitch
1980  How Far Can You Go - David Lodge

1979  The Old Jest - Jennifer Johnston
1978  Picture Palace - Paul Theroux
1977  Injury Time - Beryl Bainbridge
1976  The Children of Dynmouth - William Trevor
1975  Docherty - William McIlvanney
1974  The Sacred and Profane Love Machine - Iris Murdoch
1973  The Chip-chip Gatherers - Shiva Naipaul

Novel

2011  Tiny Sunbirds Far Away - Christie Watson

2010 The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell

2009  Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
2008  The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
2007  Day - A. L. Kennedy
2006  Restless - William Boyd
2005  The Accidental - Ali Smith
2004  Small Island - Andrea Levy
2003  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
2002  Spies - Michael Frayn
2001  Twelve Bar Blues - Patrick Neate
2000  English Passengers - Matthew Kneale

1999  Music and Silence - Rose Tremain
1998  Leading the Cheers - Justin Cartwright
1997  Quarantine - Jim Crace
1996  Every Man for Himself - Beryl Bainbridge
1995  The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
1994  Felicia's Journey - William Trevor
1993  Theory of War - Joan Brady
1992  Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
1991  The Queen of the Tambourine - Jane Gardam
1990  Hopeful Monsters - Nicholas Mosley

1989  The Chymical Wedding - Lindsay Clarke
1988  The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
1987  The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
1986  An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
1985  Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
1984  Kruger's Alp - Christopher Hope
1983  Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
1982  Young Shoulders - John Wain
1981  Silver's City - Maurice Leitch
1980  How Far Can You Go? - David Lodge

1979  The Old Jest - Jennifer Johnston
1978  Picture Palace - Paul Theroux
1977  Injury Time - Beryl Bainbridge
1976  The Children of Dynmouth - William Trevor
1975  Docherty - William McIlvanney
1974  The Sacred & Profane Love Machine - Iris Murdoch
1973  The Chip-Chip Gatherers - Shiva Naipaul
1972  The Bird of Night - Susan Hill
1971  The Destiny Waltz - Gerda Charles


Biography

2011  Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas - Matthew Hollis

2010  The Hare With Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal

2009  The Strangest Man - Graham Farmelo
2008  Somewhere Towards the End - Diana Athill
2007  Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
2006  Keeping Mum - Brian Thompson
2005  Matisse the Master - Hilary Spurling
2004  My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots - John Guy
2003  Orwell: The Life - D. J. Taylor
2002  Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self - Claire Tomalin
2001  Selkirk's Island - Diana Souhami
2000  Bad Blood: A Memoir - Lorna Sage

1999 Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness -  David Cairns
1998  Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman
1997  Victor Hugo - Graham Robb
1996  Thomas Cranmer: A Life - Diarmaid MacCulloch
1995  Gladstone - Roy Jenkins
1994  D.H. Lawrence: The Married Man - Brenda Maddox
1993  Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life - Andrew Motion
1992  Trollope - Victoria Glendinning
1991  A Life of Picasso - John Richardson
1990  A.A. Milne: His Life - Ann Thwaite

1989  Coleridge: Early Visions - Richard Holmes
1988  Tolstoy - A. N. Wilson
1987  Under the Eye of the Clock - Christopher Nolan
1986  Gilbert White - Richard Mabey
1985  Hugh Dalton - Ben Pimlott
1984  T.S. Eliot - Peter Ackroyd
1983  Vita - Victoria Glendinning
         King George V - Kenneth Rose
1982  Bismarck - Edward Crankshaw
1981  Monty: The Making of a General - Nigel Hamilton
1980  On the Edge of Paradise: A C Benson the Diarist - David Newsome

1979  About Time - Penelope Mortimer
1978  Lloyd George: The People's Champion - John Grigg
1977  Mary Curzon - Nigel Nicolson
1976  Elizabeth Gaskell - Winifred Gerin
1975  In Our Infancy - Helen Corke
1974  Poor Dear Brendan - Andrew Boyle
1973  CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman - John Wilson
1972  Anthony Trollope - James Pope-Hennessy
1971  Mercian Hymn - Geoffrey Hill

Poetry

2011  The Bees - Carol Ann Duffy

2010  Of Matability - Jo Shapcott

2009  A Scattering - Christopher Reid
2008  The Broken Word - Adam Foulds
2007  Tilt - Jean Sprackland
2006  Letter to Patience - John Haynes
2005  Cold Calls - Christopher Logue
2004  Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts
2003  Landing Light - Don Paterson
2002  The Ice Age - Paul Farley
2001  Bunny - Selima Hill
2000  The Asylum Dance - John Burnside

1999  Beowulf - Seamus Heaney
1998  Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
1997  Tales from Ovid - Ted Hughes
1996  The Spirit Level - Seamus Heaney
1995  Gunpowder - Bernard O’Donoghue
1994  Out of Danger - James Fenton
1993  Mean Time - Carol Ann Duffy
1992  The Gaze of the Gorgon - Tony Harrison
1991  Gorse Fires - Michael Longley
1990  Daddy, Daddy - Paul Durcan

1989  Shibboleth - Michael Donaghy
1988  The Automatic Oracle - Peter Porter
1987  The Haw Lantern - Seamus Heaney
1986  Stet - Peter Reading
1985  Elegies - Douglas Dunn
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1971   Mercian Hymn - Geoffrey Hill

Children's Book

2011  Blood Red Road - Moira Young

2010  Out of Shadows - Jason Wallace

2009  The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, Book Two) - Patrick Ness
2008  Just Henry - Michelle Magorian
2007  The Bower Bird - Ann Kelley
2006  Set in Stone - Linda Newbery
2005  The New Policeman - Kate Thompson
2004  Not the End of the World - Geraldine McCaughrean
2003  The Fire-Eaters - David Almond
2002  Saffy's Angel - Hilary McKay
2001  The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
2000  Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin

1999  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
1998  Skellig - David Almond
1997  Aquila - Andrew Norriss
1996  The Tulip Touch - Anne Fine
1995  The Wreck of the Zanzibar - Michael Morpurgo
1994  Gold Dust - Geraldine McCaughrean
1993  Flour Babies - Anne Fine
1992  The Great Elephant Chase - Gillian Cross
1991  Harvey Angell - Diana Hendry
1990  AK  - Peter Dickinson

1989  Why Weeps the Brogan? - Hugh Scott
1988  Awaiting Developments - Judy Allen
1987  A Little Lower than the Angels - Geraldine McCaughrean
1986  The Coal House - Andrew Taylor
1985  The Nature of the Beast - Janni Howker
1984  The Queen of the Pharisees' Children - Barbara Willard
1983  The Witches -  Roald Dahl
1982  The Song of Pentecost - W J Corbett
1981  The Hollow Land -  Jane Gardam
1980  John Diamond - Leon Garfield

1979  Tulku - Peter Dickinson
1978  The Battle of Bubble & Squeak - Philippa Pearce
1977  No End to Yesterday - Shelagh Macdonald
1976  A Stitch in Time - Penelope Lively
1975       no award
1974  How Tom Beat Captain Najork & His Hired Sportsmen - Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake
         The Emperor's Winding Sheet - Jill Paton Walsh
1973  The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast - Alan Aldridge & William Plomer
1972  The Diddakoi Rumer Godden