| 2008 Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
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| 2007 Anne Enright
The Gathering
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| 2006 Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss
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| 2005 John Banville
The Sea
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| 2004 Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty
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| 2003 DBC Pierre
Vernon God Little
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| 2002 Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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| 2001 Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang
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| 2000 Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
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| 1999 J M Coetzee
Disgrace
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| 1998 Ian McEwan
Amsterdam
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| 1997 Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
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| 1996 Graham Swift
Last Orders
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| 1995 Pat Barker
The Ghost Road
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| 1994 James Kelman
How Late It Was, How Late
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| 1993 Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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| 1992 Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
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| 1992 Barry Unsworth
Sacred Hunger
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| 1991 Ben Okri
The Famished Road
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| 1990 A S Byatt
Possession: A Romance
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| 1989 Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
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| 1988 Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda
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| 1987 Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
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| 1986 Kingsley Amis
The Old Devils
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| 1985 Keri Hulme
The Bone People
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| 1984 Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac
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| 1983 J M Coetzee
Life & Times of Michael K
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| 1982 Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Ark
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| 1981 Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
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| 1980 William Golding
Rites of Passage
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| 1979 Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore
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| 1978 Iris Murdoch
The Sea, the Sea
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| 1977 Paul Scott
Staying On
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| 1976 David Storey
Saville
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| 1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heat and Dust
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| 1974 Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
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| 1974 Stanley Middleton
Holiday
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| 1973 J G Farrell
The Siege of Krishnapur
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| 1972 John Berger
G
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| 1971 V S Naipaul
In a Free State
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| 1970 Bernice Rubens
The Elected Member
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| 1969 P H Newby
Something to Answer For
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