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 - Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre* 2002 - Life of Pi by Yann Martel* 2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 2000 - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 1999 - Disgrace by J M Coetzee* 1998 - Amsterdam by Ian McEwan*** 1997 - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 1996 - Last Orders by Graham Swift 1995 - The Ghost Road by Pat Barker 1994 - How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman 1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 1992 - The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje*** & Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth 1991 - The Famished Road by Ben Okri 1990 - Possession by A S Byatt 1989 - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro*** 1988 - Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey* 1987 - Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 1986 - The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis 1985 - The Bone People by Keri Hulme 1984 - Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 1983 - Life & Times of Michael K by J M Coetzee 1982 - Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally 1981 - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie* 1980 - Rites of Passage by William Golding 1979 - Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald 1978 - The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch 1977 - Staying On by Paul Scott 1976 - Saville by David Storey 1975 - Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1974 - The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer 1974 - Holiday by Stanley Middleton 1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell 1972 - G by John Berger 1971 - In a Free State by V S Naipaul 1970 - The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens 1969 - Something to Answer For by P H Newby |
**='yeah-ok' ***=not bad, could have been better. ****=well done, a fine book *****=excellent (rare) |