| 2016 |
| The Sellout |
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Paul Beatty
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| 2013 |
| The Luminaries |
Eleanor Catton
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| 2012 |
| Bring Up the Bodies |
Hilary Mantel
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| 2011 |
| The Sense of An Ending |
Julian Barnes
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| 2010 |
| The Finkler Question |
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Howard Jacobson
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| 2009 |
| Wolf Hall: A Novel |
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Hilary Mantel
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| 2008 |
| The White Tiger |
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Aravind Adiga
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| 2007 |
| The Gathering |
Anne Enright
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| 2006 |
| The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai
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| 2005 |
| The Sea |
John Banville
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| 2004 |
| The Line of Beauty |
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Alan Hollinghurst
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| 2003 |
| Vernon God Little |
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DBC Pierre
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| 2002 |
| Life of Pi |
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Yann Martel
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| 2000 |
| The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood
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| 1999 |
| Disgrace |
J M Coetzee
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| 1998 |
| Amsterdam |
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Ian McEwan
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| 1997 |
| The God of Small Things |
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Arundhati Roy
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| 1996 |
| Last Orders |
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Graham Swift
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| 1995 |
| The Ghost Road |
Pat Barker
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| 1993 |
| Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
Roddy Doyle
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| 1992 |
| The English Patient |
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Michael Ondaatje
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| 1992 |
| Sacred Hunger |
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Barry Unsworth
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| 1991 |
| The Famished Road |
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Ben Okri
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| 1990 |
| Possession |
A S Byatt
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| 1989 |
| The Remains of the Day |
Kazuo Ishiguro
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| 1988 |
| Oscar and Lucinda |
Peter Carey
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| 1987 |
| Moon Tiger |
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Penelope Lively
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| 1986 |
| The Old Devils |
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Kingsley Amis
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| 1985 |
| The Bone People |
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Keri Hume
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| 1984 |
| Hotel du Lac |
Anita Brookner
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| 1982 |
| Schindlers Ark |
Thomas Keneally
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| 1981 |
| Midnights Children |
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Salman Rushdie
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| 1980 |
| Rites of Passage |
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William Golding
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| 1979 |
| Offshore |
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Penelope Fitzgerald
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| 1978 |
| The Sea, the Sea |
Iris Murdoch
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| 1977 |
| Staying On |
Paul Scott
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| 1976 |
| Saville |
David Storey
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| 1975 |
| Heat and Dust |
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Nadine Gordimer
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| 1974 |
| The Conservationist |
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Nadine Gordimer
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| 1974 |
| Holiday |
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Stanley Middleton
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| 1973 |
| The Seige of Krishnapur |
J G Farrell
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| 1972 |
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John Berger
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| 1971 |
| In a Free State |
V S Naipaul
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| 1970 |
| The Elected Member |
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Bernice Rubens
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| 1969 |
| Something to Answer For |
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P H Newby
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