2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Deadman’s Pedal
Alan Warner
2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

You & I
Padgett Powell
2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Lotus Eaters
Tatjana Soli
2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Children’s Book
A.S. Byatt
2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Secret Scripture: A Novel
Sebastian Barry
2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Our Horses in Egypt
Rosalind Belben
2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Road
Cormac McCarthy
2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Saturday
Ian McEwan
2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

GB84
David Peace
2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Personality
Andrew O’Hagan
2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Something Like a House: A Novel
Sid Smith
2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

White Teeth: A Novel
Zadie Smith
1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Renegade: Or Halo2
Timothy Mo
1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Master Georgie: A Novel
Beryl Bainbridge
1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Ingenious Pain: A Novel
Andrew Miller
1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Justine
Alice Thompson
1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Prestige: A Novel
Christopher Priest
1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Folding Star
Alan Hollinghurst
1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips
1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Sacred Country
Rose Tremain
1991 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Downriver
Iain Sinclair
1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Brazzaville Beach: A Novel
William Boyd
1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

A Disaffection
James Kelman
1988 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

A Season in the West
Piers Paul Read
1987 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Golden Bird
George MacKay Brown
1986 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Persephone
Jenny Joseph
1985 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Winter Garden
Robert Edric
1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard
1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Allegro Postillions
Jonathan Keates
1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee
1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Darkness Visible
William Golding
1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Plumb
Maurice Gee
1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Honourable Schoolboy
John le Carré
1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Doctor Copernicus
John Banville
1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Great Victorian Collection
Brian Moore
1974 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Monsieur: Or the Prince of Darkness
Lawrence Durrell
1973 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch
1972 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

G: A Novel
John Berger
1971 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

A Guest of Honour
Nadine Gordimer
1970 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
