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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language and are Britain’s oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, part of the United Kingdom, the prizes were founded by Mrs Janet Coutts Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd.

(found at: http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbwins.htm)

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1. The Road (rough cut)
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
2. Saturday
by Ian Mcewan
  
3. GB84
by David Peace
  
4. Personality
by Andrew O'Hagan
  
5. The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
  
6. Something Like a House
by Sid Smith
  
7. White Teeth: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
  
8.
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 Renegade or Halo 2
by Timothy Mo
  
9. Master Georgie (Bainbridge, Beryl)
by Beryl Bainbridge
  
10. Ingenious Pain (Harvest Book)
by Andrew Miller
  
11. Last Orders
by Graham Swift
  
12. Justine
by Alice Thompson
  
13. The Prestige
by Christopher Priest
  
14. The Folding Star: A Novel
by Alan Hollinghurst
  
15. Crossing The River
by Caryl Phillips
  
16. Sacred Country
by Rose Tremain
  
17. Downriver
by Iain Sinclair
  
18. Brazzaville Beach
by William Boyd
  
19.
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 A Disaffection
by James Kelman
  
20.
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 A Season in the West
by Piers Paul Read
  
21.
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 The golden bird: Two Orkney stories
by George Mackay Brown
  
22.
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 Persephone
by Jenny Joseph
  
23.
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 Winter Garden
by Robert Edric
  
24. Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
  
25. Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
  
26.
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 Allegro Postillions
by Jonathan Keates
  
27. On the Black Hill
by Bruce Chatwin
  
28. Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
  
29. The Mosquito Coast
by Paul Theroux
  
30. Waiting for the Barbarians
by J M Coetzee
  
31. Darkness Visible
by William Golding
  
32.
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 Plumb
by Maurice Gee
  
33. The Honourable Schoolboy
by John le Carre
  
34. Doctor Copernicus
by John Banville
  
35. The Great Victorian Collection (Paladin Books)
by Brian Moore
  
36. Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness (Faber Fiction Classics)
by Lawrence Durrell
  
37. The Black Prince (Vintage Classics)
by Iris Murdoch
  
38. G
by John Berger
  
39. A Guest of Honour
by Nadine Gordimer
  
40.
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 The bird of paradise
by Lily Powell Froissard
  
41. Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes
by Elizabeth Bowen
  
42.
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 The Gasteropod
by Maggie Ross
  
43. Jerusalem the Golden
by Margaret Drabble
  
44. Langrishe, Go Down (Irish Literature)
by Aidan Higgins
  
45. The Mandelbaum Gate
by Muriel Spark
  
46.
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 The Ice Saints
by Frank Tuohy
  
47.
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 Slanting Light
by Gerda Charles
  
48.
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 Act of Destruction
by Ronald Hardy
  
49.
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 The Ha-ha (Virago Modern Classics)
by Jennifer Dawson
  
50.
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 Imperial Caesar
by Rex Warner
  
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