John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

2010
Winner
The Still Point by Amy Sackville

Shortlist
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine
Witch Light (Corrag) by Susan Fletcher
A Light Song of Light by Kei Miller
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Bomber County by Daniel Swift

2009
Winner
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

Shortlist
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
The Striped World by Emma Jones
Six Months in Sudan by James Maskalyk
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart

2008
Winner
The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings

Shortlist
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Selling Your Father's Bones by Brian Schofield

2006
Winner
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall

Shortlist
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley
Occupational Hazards by Rory Stewart

2005
Winner
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

Shortlist
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
The State of the Prisons by Sinéad Morrissey
Newfoundland by Rebecca Ray
Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok

2004
Winner
Boy A by Jonathan Trigell

Shortlist
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People by Neil Bennun
The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart

2003
Winner
Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson

2002
Winner
Virgins of Venice by Mary Laven

Winner (withdrawn)
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru

2001
Winner
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones

2000
Winner
Leadville by Edward Platt

Shortlist
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden
Hungry for Home Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland by Cole Moreton
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
1999
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

1998
The Ugliest House in the World by Peter Ho Davies

1997
Eclipse of the Sun by Phil Whitaker

1996
Heading Inland by Nicola Barker

1995
Motel Nirvana by Melanie McGrath

1994
What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy) by Jonathan Coe

1993
On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul by Jason Goodwin

1992
Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale

1991
Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by AL Kennedy

1990
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk

1989
Sylvia Townsend Warner by Claire Harman

1988
The March Fence by Matthew Yorke

1987
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

1986
Loving Roger by Tim Parks

1985
The Laird of Abbotsford by AN Wilson

1984
Dangerous Play Andrew Motion

1983
The Slow Train to Milan by Lisa St Aubin de Terán

1982
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd

1980
The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea by Desmond Hogan

1979
The Shining Mountain by Peter Boardman

1978
The Sweets of Pimlico by AN Wilson

1977
Vorticism & Abstract Art in the First Machine Age by Richard Cork

1975
Knuckle by David Hare
Cushing's Crusade by Tim Jeal

1974
The Girl Who Passed for Normal by Hugh Fleetwood

1973
A Warm Gun by Peter Smalley

1972
The Albatross by Susan Hill

1971
Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul

1970
The People's War by Angus Calder

1969
Without a City Wall by Melvyn Bragg

1968
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter

1967
The Seahorse by Anthony Masters

1966
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

1965
The White Father by Julian Mitchell

1964
Up the Junction by Nell Dunn

1963
Two Lives by Peter Marshall

1962
An Introduction to the House of Commons by Robert Rhodes James
A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems by Edward Lucie-Smith

1961
Flight into Camden by David Storey

1960
At Fever Pitch by David Caute

1959
A Long Way from London by Dan Jacobson

1958
The Mystic Masseur by VS Naipaul

1957
The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond

1956
Voices Under the Window by John Hearne

1955
The Moon to Play With by John Wiles

1954
The Hostile Sun by Tom Stacey

1953
The Return Home by Rachel Trickett

1951
The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard

1950
Adventure Lit Their Star by Kenneth Allsop

1949
Maiden's Trip by Emma Smith

1948
The Wind Cannot Read by Richard Mason

1947
Moondrop to Gascony by Anne-Marie Walters

1946
My Bird Sings by Oriel Malet

1945
The Sea Eagle by James Aldridge

1944
The Last Inspection by Alun Lewis

1943
Beauty for Ashes by Morwenna Donnelly

1942
Sunk by a Mine by Michael Richey