Longlist

The longlist for this year was not published by the judges.

Shortlist

• Christopher Hope »
  Serenity House »
  Macmillan
• Patrick McCabe »
  The Butcher Boy »
  Picador
• Ian McEwan »
  Black Dogs »
  Jonathan Cape
• Michèle Roberts »
  Daughters of the House »
  Virago

Judges

• Victoria Glendinning (Chair)
• John Coldstream
• Valentine Cunningham
• Mark Lawson
• Dr Harriet Harvey Wood