Past winners
BOOK OF THE YEAR - The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe Books)
Category winners
First Novel Award - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Viking)
Novel Award - Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller (Fig Tree)
Biography Award - Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston (Viking)
Poetry Award - The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe Books)
Children’s Book Award - The Crossing by Manjeet Mann (Penguin)
BOOK OF THE YEAR - The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey (Peepal Tree)
Category winners
First Novel Award - Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud (Faber)
Novel Award - The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey (Peepal Tree)
Biography Award - The Louder I Will Sing by Lee Lawrence (Sphere)
Poetry Award - The Historians by Eavan Boland (Carcanet)
Children’s Book Award - Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant (Faber)
BOOK OF THE YEAR - THE VOLUNTEER by Jack Fairweather (WH Allen)
Category winners
First Novel Award - The Confessions of Frannie Langton - Sara Collins - (Viking)
Novel Award - Middle England - Jonathan Coe - (Viking)
Biography Award - The Volunteer - Jack Fairweather - (WH Allen)
Poetry Award - Flèche - Mary Jean Chan - (Faber & Faber)
Children’s Book Award - Asha & the Spirit Bird - Jasbinder Bilan - (Chicken House)
BOOK OF THE YEAR - THE CUT OUT GIRL by Bart van Es (Fig Tree Books)
Category winners
First Novel Award - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton - (Bloomsbury Books)
Novel Award - Normal People - Sally Rooney - (Faber & Faber)
Biography Award - The Cut Out Girl - Bart van Es - Fig Tree Books
Poetry Award - Assurances - J O Morgan - (Jonathan Cape)
Children’s Book Award - The Skylarks’ War - Hilary McKay - (Macmillan Children’s Books)
BOOK OF THE YEAR - INSIDE THE WAVE by Helen Dunmore (Bloodaxe Books)
Category winners
First Novel Award - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman - (Harper Collins)
Novel Award - Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor - (4th Estate)
Biography Award - In the Days of Rain - Rebecca Stott - (4th Estate)
Poetry Award - Inside the Wave - Helen Dunmore - (Bloodaxe Books)
Children’s Book Award - The Explorer - Katherine Rundell - (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
Click here to download the full list of previous winners from 2006.
