James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerSomething Like a House: A NovelSid SmithThis is Jim Fraser's story: an incredible, often chilling account of his life as an army deserter living through the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, when China descended into a moral and physical chaos so extreme that cannibalism became, for...Amazon2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistAtonement: A NovelIan McEwanAmazonNumber9Dream: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonThe Body ArtistDon DeLilloAmazon

1991 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerDownriverIain SinclairDownriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair....Amazon

2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerPersonalityAndrew O'HaganDreaming of the day she can escape her Italian immigrant family, Maria Tambini wins a singing contest and is whisked into instant stardom, a situation that forces her into a confrontation with the celebrity lifestyle and pits her against her own body. Repr...Amazon2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistMiddlesexJeffrey EugenidesAmazonThe Crimson Petal and the White: A NovelMichel FaberAmazonThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A NovelMark HaddonAmazon

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerGB84David PeaceGreat Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. This book describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalf...Amazon2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistCloud Atlas: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonHavoc in Its Third Year: A NovelRonan BennettAmazonPsychoraag: A NovelSuhayl SaadiAmazonThe AfterglowAnthony CartwrightAmazon

2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerSaturdayIan McEwan‘Dazzling... Profound and urgent’ Observer ‘A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday’ ...Amazon2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistBeasts of No Nation: A NovelUzodinma IwealaAmazonMother, Missing: A NovelJoyce Carol OatesAmazonNever Let Me Go: A NovelKazuo IshiguroAmazonPraying Mantis: A NovelAndré BrinkAmazonThe AccidentalAli SmithAmazon

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe RoadCormac McCarthyWith an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves s...Amazon2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistElectricityRay RobinsonAmazonHalf of a Yellow Sun: A NovelChimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmazonSeven Lies: A NovelJames LasdunAmazonThe Night WatchSarah WatersAmazonThe View from Castle Rock: StoriesAlice MunroAmazon

2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerOur Horses in EgyptRosalind BelbenPhilomena is requisitioned from a Dorset field in the summer of 1914, and serves with the yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the First World War. But she doesn't come back to England: thousands of British Army horses are sold off locally. Fai...Amazon2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Far CountryDaniel MasonAmazonSalvageGee WilliamsAmazonThe Devil's Footprints: A NovelJohn BurnsideAmazonThe Reluctant Fundamentalist: A NovelMohsin HamidAmazon

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Secret Scripture: A NovelSebastian BarryNearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often wi...Amazon2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Case of Exploding Mangoes: A NovelMohammed HanifAmazonA Mercy: A NovelToni MorrisonAmazonPilcrowAdam Mars-JonesAmazonSputnik CaledoniaAndrew CrumeyAmazon

2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Children's BookA.S. ByattFrom the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a deeply affecting story of a singular family. When children’s book author Olive Wellwood’s oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him in...Amazon2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistNocturnes: Five Stories of Music and NightfallKazuo IshiguroAmazonStrangers: A NovelAnita BrooknerAmazonThe Selected Works of T.S Spivet: A NovelReif LarsenAmazonWolf Hall: A NovelHilary MantelAmazon