Year: 1997

Judges

• Professor Gillian Beer (chair)
• Rachel Billington
• Jason Cowley
• Jan Dalley
• Professor Dan Jacobson

Books

The Essence of the Thing

Madeleine St John

Shortlisted

Europa

Tim Parks

Shortlisted

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

Winner

Grace Notes

Bernard MacLaverty

Shortlisted

Quarantine

Jim Crace

Shortlisted

The Underground Man

Mick Jackson

Shortlisted