Winner

A Spell of Winter – Helen Dunmore

Shortlist

The Book of Colour – Julia Blackburn

Spinsters – Pagan Kennedy

The Hundred Secret Senses – Amy Tan

Ladder of Years – Anne Tyler

Eveless Eden – Marianne Wiggins

Longlist

The Ghost Road – Pat Barker

Official and Doubtful – Ajay Close

The Rape of Sita – Lindsey Collen

Keeping Up with Magda – Isla Dewar

The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald

The Private Parts of Women – Lesley Glaister

The Passion of Alice – Stephanie Grant

Egg Dancing – Liz Jensen

So I Am Glad – A.L. Kennedy

Never Far From Nowhere – Andrea Levy

Mother of Pearl – Mary Morrissy

Promised Lands – Jane Rogers

River Lines – Elspeth Sandys