Iris Murdoch The Nice and the Good Chatto & Windus
Muriel Spark The Public Image
Bernice Rubens The Elected Member
Elizabeth Bowen Eva Trout Jonathan Cape
Iris Murdoch Bruno's Dream
Nina Bawden The Birds on the Trees Virago
Shirley Hazzard The Bay of Noon Virago
Mary Renault Fire From Heaven
Doris Lessing Briefing for a Descent into Hell Jonathan Cape
Elizabeth Taylor Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Chatto & Windus
Susan Hill The Bird of Night Hamish Hamilton
Beryl Bainbridge The Dressmaker Duckworth
Elizabeth Mavor The Green Equinox Michael Joseph
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince Chatto & Windus
Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist Jonathan Cape I
Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing Duckworth
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust John Murray Angus Wilson
Caroline Blackwood Great Granny Webster Duckworth
Jennifer Johnston Shadows on our Skin Hamish Hamilton
Penelope Lively The Road to Lichfield Heinemann
Barbara Pym Quartet in Autumn Macmillan
Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea Chatto & Windus
Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop Duckworth
Jane Gardam God on the Rocks Hamish Hamilton
Bernice Rubens A Five-Year Sentence W. H. Allen
Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore Collins
Fay Weldon Praxis Hodder & Stoughton
Anita Desai Clear Light of Day Heinemann
Alice Munro The Beggar Maid Viking
Julia O'Faolain No Country for Young Men Viking
Molly Keane Good Behaviour Deutsch
Doris Lessing The Sirian Experiments Jonathan Cape
Ann Schlee Rhine Journey Macmillan
Muriel Spark Loitering with Intent Bodley Head
Alice Thomas Ellis The 27th Kingdom Duckworth
Anita Mason The Illusionist Hamish Hamilton
Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac Jonathan Cape Professor Richard Cobb
Anita Desai In Custody Heinemann
Penelope Lively According to Mark Heinemann
Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist Jonathan Cape
Iris Murdoch The Good Apprentice Chatto & Windus
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Jonathan Cape
Penelope Lively Moon Tiger Deutsch P. D. James
Nina Bawden Circles of Deceit Macmillan
Iris Murdoch The Book and the Brotherhood Chatto & Windus
Penelope Fitzgerald The Beginning of Spring Collins
Marina Warner The Lost Father Chatto & Windus
Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye Bloomsbury
Sybille Bedford Jigsaw Hamish Hamilton
Rose Tremain Restoration Hamish Hamilton
A. S. Byatt Possession: A Romance Chatto & Windus
Beryl Bainbridge An Awfully Big Adventure Duckworth
Penelope Fitzgerald The Gate of Angels Collins
Caryl Phillips Crossing the River Bloomsbury
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries Fourth Estate
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace Bloomsbury
Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself Duckworth
Shena Mackay The Orchard on Fire Heinemann
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Faber & Faber
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things Flamingo
Madeleine St John The Essence of the Thing Fourth Estate
Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie Duckwort
Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting Chatto & Windus
Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Bloomsbury Simon Jenkins
Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place Picador
Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room William Heinemann
Carol Shields Unless Fourth Estate
Sarah Waters Fingersmith Virago
Monica Ali Brick Lane Doubleday
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake Bloomsbury
Zoë Heller Notes on a Scandal Viking
Clare Morrall Astonishing Splashes of Colour Tindal Street
Sarah Hall The Electric Michelangelo Faber & Faber
Zadie Smith On Beauty Hamish Hamilton
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Hamish Hamilton
Kate Grenville The Secret River Canongate
M. J. Hyland Carry Me Down Canongate
Sarah Waters The Night Watch Virago
Anne Enright The Gathering Jonathan Cape Howard Davies
Nicola Barker Darkmans Fourth Estate
Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs Virago
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Fourth Estate
A. S. Byatt The Children's Book Chatto and Windus
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger Virago
Emma Donoghue Room Picador
Andrea Levy The Long Song Hachette
Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie Canongate
Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues Serpent’s Tail
Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies Fourth Estate Sir Peter Stothard
Deborah Levy Swimming Home And Other Stories/Faber & Faber
Alison Moore The Lighthouse Salt Publishing