The Whitbread Award for the Best British Novel
2004 Small Island, Andrea Levy
2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
2002 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Claire Tomalin
2001 The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
2000 English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
1999 Music and Silence, Rose Termain
1998 Leading the Cheers, Justin Cartright
1997 Quarantine, Jim Crace
1996 Every Man for Himself, Beryl Bainbridge
1995 The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
1994 Felicia's Journey, William Trevor
1993 Theory of War, Joan Brady
1992 Poor Things, Alasdair Gray
1991 The Queen of the Tambourine, Jane Gardam
1990 Hopeful Monsters, Nicholas Mosley
1989 The Chymical Wedding, Lindsay Clarke
1988 The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
1987 The Child in Time, Ian McEwan
1986 An Artst of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
1985 Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
1984 Kruger's Alp, Christopher Hope
1983 Fools of Fortune, William Trevor
1982 Young Shoulders, John Wain
1981 Silver's City, Maurice Leitch
1980 How Far Can You Go?, David Lodge
1979 The Old Jest, Jennifer Johnson
1978 Picture Palace, Paul Theroux
1977 Injury Time, Beryl Bainbridge
1976 The Children of Dynmouth, William Trevor
1975 Docherty, William McIlvanney
1974 The Sacred & Profane Love Machine, Iris Murdoch
1973 The Chip-Chip Gatherers, Shiva Naipaul
1972 The Bird of Night, Susan Hill
1971 The Destiny Waltz, Gerda Charles