The prize is awarded anually sice 1969 to the best full-length novel written  in the British Commonwealth published in the preceding 12 months.

1999

Disgrace by J M Coetzee (The Winner)
Fasting, Feasting Anita Desai
Headlong by Michael Fryan
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin

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