Secret Attic Blog

2020
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Peace Talks by Tim Finch
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey

​Winner announced 4th January 2021

2020 - The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey
2019 Jonathan Coe - Middle England
2018 Sally Rooney - Normal People
2017 Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
2016 Sebastian Barry - Days Without End
2015 Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins
2014 Ali Smith - How to Be Both
2013 Kate Atkinson - Life after Life
2012 Hilary Mantel - Bring up the Bodies
2011 Andrew Miller - Pure Blue ribbon
2010 Maggie O'Farrell - The Hand That First Held Mine
2009 Colm Tóibin - Brooklyn
2008 Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
2007 A.L. Kennedy - Day Blue ribbon
2006 William Boyd - Restless
2005 Ali Smith - The Accidental
2004 Andrea Levy - Small Island
2003 Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2002 Michael Frayn - Spies
2001 Patrick Neate - Twelve Bar Blues
2000 Matthew Kneale - English Passengers
1999 Rose Tremain - Music and Silence
1998 Justin Cartwright - Leading the Cheers
1997 Jim Crace - Quarantine
1996 Beryl Bainbridge - Every Man for Himself
1995 Salman Rushdie - The Moor's Last Sigh
1994 William Trevor - Felicia's Journey
1993 Joan Brady - Theory of War
1992 Alasdair Gray - Poor Things
1991 Jane Gardam - The Queen of the Tambourine
1990 Nicholas Mosley Hopeful Monsters
1989 Lindsay Clarke - The Chymical Wedding
1988 Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
1987 Ian McEwan - The Child in Time
1986 Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World
1985 Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor
1984 Christopher Hope - Kruger's Alp
1983 William Trevor - Fools of Fortune
1982 John Wain - Young Shoulders
1981 Maurice Leitch - Silver's City
1980 David Lodge How Far Can You Go
1979 Jennifer Johnston - The Old Jest
1978 Paul Theroux - Picture Palace
1977 Beryl Bainbridge - Injury Time
1976 William Trevor - The Children of Dynmouth
1975 William McIlvanney - Docherty
1974 Iris Murdoch - The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
1973 Shiva Naipaul - The Chip-Chip Gatherers
1972 Susan Hill - The Bird of Night
1971 Gerda Charles - The Destiny Waltz