Desmond Elliott Prize

2018
Longlist
The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
How to be Human by Paula Cocozza
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Seven Days Of Us by Francesca Hornak
Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
One Star Awake by Andrew Meehan
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja

2017
Winner
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Shortlist
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal

Longlist
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
The Transition by Luke Kennard
The Sacred Combe by Thomas Maloney
Ithaca by Alan McMonagle
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
Forbidden Line by Paul Stanbridge

2016
Winner
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

Shortlist
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester

Longlist
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Honours by Tim Clare
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
Things We Have In Common by Tasha Kavanagh
Disclaimer by Renée Knight
The Weightless World by Anthony Trevelyan

2015
Winner
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller

Shortlist
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

Longlist
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Glass by Alex Christofi
Randall by Jonathan Gibbs
The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
The Bees by Laline Paull
Chop Chop by Simon Wroe

2014
Winner
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

Shortlist
The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison
Ballistics by DW Wilson

Longlist
Idiopathy by Sam Byers
Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
Sedition by Katharine Grant
The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera

2013
Winner
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber

Shortlist
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan

Longlist
The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
The Fields by Kevin Maher
Signs of Life by Anna Raverat
Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard
Jammy Dodger by Kevin Smith
The Painted Bridge by Wendy Wallace

2012
Winner
The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen

Shortlist
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness

Longlist
The Missing Shade of Blue by Jennie Erdal
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
Bed by David Whitehouse
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood

2011
Winner
Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph

Shortlist
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman

Longlist
The Afterparty by Leo Benedictus
The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly
Who is Mr Satoshi? by Jonathan Lee
A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene
Pub Walks in Underhill Country by Nat Segnit
Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla
The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed

2010
Winner
The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

Shortlist
Before the Earthquake by Maria Allen
Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley

Longlist
The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott
The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry
Rupture by Simon Lelic
The Shadow of a Smile by Kachi A Ozumba
The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne

2009
Winner
Blackmoor by Edward Hogan

Shortlist
A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn

Longlist
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
Girl In A Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
Never Never by David Gaffney
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean
Little Gods by Anna Richards
The Alternative Hero by Tim Thornton

2008
Winner
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani

Shortlist
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh

Longlist
Broken by Daniel Clay
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds
The Outcast by Sadie Jones

Kill Your Friends by John Niven

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Random Acts Of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann 

The Messenger Of Athens by Anne Zouroudi