Year: 1999

Judges

• Gerald Kaufman (chair)
• Shena Mackay
• John Sutherland
• Boyd Tonkin
• Natasha Walter

Books

The Blackwater Lightship

Colm Tóibín

Shortlisted

Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee

Winner

Fasting, Feasting

Anita Desai

Shortlisted

Headlong

Michael Frayn

Shortlisted

The Map of Love

Ahdaf Soueif

Shortlisted

Our Fathers

Andrew O'Hagan

Shortlisted