all past prizes

2011

Turn of Mind

By Alice LaPlante

Thriller, Fiction

Published by Harvill Secker

Winner 2011

Turn of Mind

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Shortlist

Nemesis

By Philip Roth
The Emperor of All Maladies

By Siddhartha Mukherjee
State of Wonder

By Ann Patchett
Turn of Mind

By Alice LaPlante
Two Kinds of Decay

By Sarah Manguso
My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You

By Louisa Young

Judges

Joanna Bourke

Academic and writer
Roger Highfield

Science editor and journalist
Tim Lott

Author and critic
Vivienne Parry

Writer and broadcaster
Erica Wagner

Literary editor and author