Year | Best Book Winner | Best First Book Winner | ||||||||||||
2007 | Mister Pip
| Vandal Love | ||||||||||||
2006 | The Secret River
| Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement | ||||||||||||
2005 | Small Island
| Purple Hibiscus
| ||||||||||||
2004 | A Distant Shore
| |||||||||||||
2003 | The Polished Hoe
| Haweswater
| ||||||||||||
2002 | Gould's Book of Fish
| Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
| ||||||||||||
2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang
| White Teeth
| ||||||||||||
2000 | Disgrace
| Red-Rose Chain | ||||||||||||
|