1989
"The Remains of the Day", Kazuo Ishiguro
"Cat's Eye", Margaret Atwood
"The Book of Evidence", John Banville
"Jigsaw - an Unsentimental Education", Sybille Bedford
"A Disaffection", James Kelman
"Restoration", Rose Tremain
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1988
"Oscar and Lucinda", Peter Carey
"Utz", Bruce Chatwin
"The Beginning of Spring", Penelope Fitzgerald
"Nice Work", David Lodge
"The Satanic Verses", Salman Rushdie
"The Lost Father", Marina Warner
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1987
"Moon Tiger", Penelope Lively
"Anthills of the Savannah", Chinua Achebe
"Chatterton", Peter Ackroyd
"Circles of Deceit", Nina Bawden
"The Colour of Blood", Brian Moore
"The Book and the Brotherhood", Iris Murdoch
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1986
"The Old Devils", Kingsley Amis
"The Handmaid's Tale", Margaret Atwood
"Gabriel's Lament", Paul Bailey
"What's Bred in the Bone", Robertson Davies
"An Artist of the Floating World", Kazuo Ishiguro
"An Insular Possession", Timothy Mo
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1985
"The Bone People", Keri Hulme
"Illywhacker", Peter Carey
"The Battle of Pollocks Crossing", J. L. Carr
"The Good Terrorist", Doris Lessing
"Last Letters from Hav", Jan Morris
"The Good Apprentice", Iris Murdoch
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1984
"Hotel du Lac", Anita Brookner
"Empire of the Sun", J. G. Ballard
"Flaubert's Parrot", Julian Barnes
"In Custody", Anita Desai
"According to Mark", Penelope Lively
"Small World", David Lodge
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1983
"Life and Times of Michael K.", J. M. Coetzee
"Rates of Exchange", Malcolm Bradbury
"Flying to Nowhere", John Fuller
"The Illusionist", Anita Mason
"Shame", Salman Rushdie
"Waterland", Graham Swift
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1982
"Schindler's Ark", Thomas Keneally
"Silence Among the Weapons", John Arden
"An Ice-Cream War", William Boyd
"Sour Sweet", Timothy Mo
"Constance or Solitary Practices", Lawrence Durrell
"The 27th Kingdom", Alice Thomas Ellis
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1981
"Midnight's Children", Salman Rushdie
"The Sirian Experiments", Doris Lessing
"The Comfort of Strangers", Ian McEwan
"Good Behaviour", Molly Keane
"Rhine Journey", Anne Schlee
"Loitering with Intent", Muriel Spark
"The White Hotel", D.M. Thomas
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1980
"Rites of Passage", William Golding
"A Month in the Country", J.L. Carr
"Earthly Powers", Anthony Burgess
"Clear Light of Day", Anita Desai
"The Beggar Maid", Alice Munro
"No Country for Young Men", Julia O'Faolain
"Pascali's Island", Barry Unsworth
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