The short list is usually announced in the middle of June in the year following that in which submissions are published; the names of the prize winners are usually announced in August.
| To James Tait Black information page | See also the complete list of prizewinners since 1919 |
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Author | Title | Publisher |
| Sebastian BARRY | The Secret Scripture | Faber and Faber | |
| Andrew CRUMEY | Sputnik Caledonia | Picador (imprint of Pan Macmillan) | |
| Mohammed HANIF | A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Jonathan Cape (imprint of Random House) |
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| Adam MARS-JONES | Pilcrow | Faber and Faber | |
| Toni MORRISON | A Mercy | Chatto & Windus (imprint of Random House) |
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Author | Title | Publisher |
| Christopher BIGSBY | Arthur Miller 1915-1962 | Weidenfeld and Nicolson (imprint of Orion Books) | |
| Michael HOLROYD | A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families | Chatto & Windus (imprint of Random House) | |
| Gerald MARTIN | Gabriel Garcia Márquez: A Life | Bloomsbury | |
| Sheila ROWBOTHAM | Edward Carpenter: A life of Liberty and Love | Verso | |
| Jackie WULLSCHLAGER | Chagall: Love and Exile | Penguin |
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Author | Title | Publisher |
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Rosalind BELBEN | Our Horses in Egypt | Chatto & Windus (imprint of Random House) |
| John BURNSIDE | The Devil's Footprints | Jonathan Cape (imprint of Random House) |
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| Mohsin HAMID | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Hamish Hamilton (imprint of Penguin Books) |
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| Daniel MASON | A Far Country | Picador (imprint of Pan Macmillan) | |
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Gee WILLIAMS | Salvage | Alcemi |
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Author | Title | Publisher |
| Michael GRAY | Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell | Bloomsbury | |
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Rosemary HILL | God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain | Allen Lane (imprint of Penguin Books) |
| Hermione LEE | Edith Wharton | Chatto & Windus (imprint of Random House) | |
| Richard REEVES | John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand | Atlantic Books (imprint of Grove Atlantic) | |
| Simon SEBAG MONTEFIORE | Young Stalin | Weidenfeld and Nicolson (imprint of Orion Books) |
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Author | Title | Publisher |
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Chimamanda Ngozi ADICHIE | Half of a Yellow Sun | Fourth Estate (imprint of HarperCollins publishers) |
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James LASDUN | Seven Lies | Jonathan Cape (imprint of Random House) |
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Cormac McCARTHY | The Road | Picador (imprint of Pan Macmillan) |
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Alice MUNRO | The View from Castle Rock | Chatto & Windus (imprint of Random House) |
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Ray ROBINSON | Electricity | Picador (imprint of Pan Macmillan) |
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Sarah WATERS | The Night Watch | Virago Press (imprint of Little, Brown) |
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Author | Title | Publisher |
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Carmen CALLIL | Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland | Jonathan Cape (imprint of Random House) |
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David CANNADINE | Mellon: An American Life | Allen Lane (imprint of Penguin Books) |
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Gillian DARLEY | John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity | Yale University Press |
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Maggie FERGUSSON | George Mackay Brown: The Life | John Murray (Hodder Headline) |
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Byron ROGERS | The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas | Aurum Press |
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Kate TELTSCHER | The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet | Bloomsbury |
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| Book | Author | Title | Publisher |
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André BRINK |
Secker and Warburg
(imprint of Random House UK) |
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Kazuo ISHIGURO
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Faber and Faber
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Uzodinma IWEALA
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John Murray
(imprint of Hodder Headline) |
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Ian McEWAN
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Jonathan Cape
(imprint of Random House) |
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Joyce Carol OATES
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Fourth Estate
(imprint of HarperCollins publishers) |
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Ali SMITH |
Hamish Hamilton (imprint of Penguin Books) |
| Book | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Max EGREMONT
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Picador (imprint of Pan Macmillan)
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Nigel FARNDALE
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Macmillan (imprint of Pan Macmillan)
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Roger KNIGHT
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Allen Lane (imprint of Penguin
Books)
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Alexander MASTERS
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Fourth Estate (imprint of HarperCollins
publishers)
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Roger PEARSON
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Bloomsbury
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Sue PRIDEAUX
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Yale University Press
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| Book | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Ronan BENNETT |
Havoc in its Third Year |
Bloomsbury |
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Anthony CARTWRIGHT |
The Afterglow |
Tindal Street Press |
.JPG) |
David MITCHELL |
Cloud Atlas |
Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton) |
.JPG) |
David PEACE |
GB84 |
Faber and Faber |
.JPG) |
Suhayl SAADI |
Psychoraag |
Black & White Publishing |
| Book | Author | Title | Publisher |
.JPG) |
John CLARE |
John Clare: A Biography |
Picador (imprint of Pan Macmillan) |
.JPG) |
David CESARANI |
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes |
William Heinemann (imprint of Random House) |
.JPG) |
Jonathan COE |
Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S.
Johnson |
Picador (imprint of Pan Macmillan) |
.JPG) |
Nicola LACEY |
A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and
the Noble Dream |
Oxford University Press |
.JPG) |
John SUGDEN |
Nelson: A Dream of Glory |
Jonathan Cape (Random House) |
.JPG) |
Michael W YOUNG |
Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist
1884-1920 |
Yale University Press |
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| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Jeffrey EUGENIDES | Middlesex | Bloomsbury |
| Michel FABER | The Crimson Petal and the White | Canongate Books Ltd |
| Mark HADDON | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Jonathan Cape |
| Andrew O'HAGAN | Personality | Faber and Faber |
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Janet BROWNE | Charles Darwin: Vol 2 - The Power of Place | Jonathan Cape |
| William DALRYMPLE | White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India | Flamingo (HarperCollins) |
| Caroline MOOREHEAD | Martha Gellhorn: A Life | Chatto and Windus |
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| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Jonathan FRANZEN | The Corrections | Fourth Estate (HarperCollins) |
| John LANCHESTER | Fragrant Harbour | Faber and Faber |
| Rohinton MISTRY | Family Matters | Faber and Faber |
| Carol SHIELDS | Unless | Fourth Estate (HarperCollins) |
| William TREVOR | The Story of Lucy Gault | Viking |
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Miranda CARTER | Anthony Blunt: His Lives | Macmillan |
| Melanie McGRATH | Silvertown: An East End Family Memoir | Fourth Estate (HarperCollins) |
| Ann SADDLEMYER | Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats |
Oxford University Press |
| Jenny UGLOW | The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 |
Faber and Faber |
| Geoffrey WALL | Flaubert: A Life | Faber and Faber |
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| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Don DeLILLO | The Body Artist | Picador (Macmillan) |
| Ian McEWAN | Atonement | Jonathan Cape |
| David MITCHELL | number9dream | Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton) |
| Sid SMITH | Something Like a House | Picador (Macmillan) |
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Ian KERSHAW | Hitler 1936-45: Nemesis | Allen Lane (The Penguin Press) |
| David MACEY | Frantz Fanon: A Life | Granta Books |
| James McDERMOTT | Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer |
Yale University Press |
| Mark ROSEMAN | The Past in Hiding | Allen Lane (The Penguin Press) |
| Robert SKIDELSKY | John Maynard Keynes: Fighting For Britain 1937-1946 |
Macmillan |
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| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Trezza AZZOPARDI | The Hiding Place | Picador (Macmillan) |
| Mark Z. DANIELEWSKI | House of Leaves | Anchor (Transworld Publishers) |
| Lawrence NORFOLK | In the Shape of a Boar | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Zadie SMITH | White Teeth | Penguin UK |
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Martin AMIS | Experience | Jonathan Cape |
| Miles BREDIN | The Pale Abyssinian: A Life of James Bruce, African Explorer |
HarperCollins |
| Paul MARIANI | The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane |
W. W. Norton |
| Graham ROBB | Rimbaud | Picador (Macmillan) |
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| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Julia BLACKBURN | The Leper's Companions | Jonathan Cape |
| David DABYDEEN | A Harlot's Progress | Jonathan Cape |
| Michael FRAYN | Headlong | Faber & Faber |
| Christopher HART | The Harvest | Faber & Faber |
| Timothy MO | Renegade or Halo2 | Paddleless Press |
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Gillian DARLEY | John Soane: An Accidental Romantic | Yale University Press |
| Isobel GRUNDY | Lady Mary Wortley Montague: Comet of the Enlightenment |
Oxford University Press |
| Kathryn HUGHES | George Eliot: The Last Victorian | Fourth Estate |
| Michael IGNATIEFF | Isaiah Berlin: A Life | Chatto & Windus |
| Anthony SAMPSON | Mandela: The Authorised Biography | Harper Collins |
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| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Beryl BAINBRIDGE | Master Georgie | Duckworth |
| Lucy ELLMANN | Man or Mango?: a lament | Review (Hodder Headline) |
| Sebastian FAULKS | Charlotte Gray | Hutchinson |
| Giles FODEN | The Last King of Scotland | Faber & Faber |
| Magnus MILLS | The Restraint of Beasts | Flamingo (HarperCollins) |
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Peter ACKROYD | The Life of Thomas More | Chatto & Windus |
| David ELLIS | D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930 | Cambridge University Press |
| Kenneth R. JOHNSON | The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy | W.W. Norton & Co. |
| Graham ROBB | Victor Hugo | Picador (Macmillan) |
| Diana SOUHAMI | The Trials of Radclyffe Hall | Weidenfeld & Nicholson |
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| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Peter CAREY | Jack Maggs | Faber & Faber |
| Fred D'AGUIAR | Feeding the Ghosts | Chatto & Windus |
| Bernard MacLAVERTY | Grace Notes | Jonathan Cape |
| Ian McEWAN | Enduring Love | Jonathan Cape |
| Andrew MILLER | Ingenious Pain | Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton) |
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Jon Lee ANDERSON | Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life | Bantam Press (Transworld) |
| Anthony BAILEY | Standing in the Sun: A Life of J.M.W. Turner |
Sinclair-Stevenson |
| Jonathan DIMBLEBY | The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong | Little, Brown & Co. |
| R. F. FOSTER | W. B. Yeats: A Life (Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914) |
Oxford University Press |
| James HAMILTON | Turner: A Life | Hodder & Stoughton |
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