2006 The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
2007 Day by A L Kennedy
2008 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
2009 A Scattering by Christopher Reid
2010 Of Mutability by Jo Shappcott
2012 Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2013 The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
2014 H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
2015 The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
2016 Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
2017 Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
2018 The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
2019 The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz