Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, por Purple Hibiscus (4th Estate)
Nadeem Aslam, por Maps for Lost Lovers (Faber & Faber)
Nicola Barker, por Clear: A Transparent Novel (4th Estate)
John Bemrose, por The Island Walkers (John Murray)
Ronan Bennett, por Havoc, in its Third Year (Bloomsbury)
Susanna Clarke, por Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury)
Neil Cross, por Always the Sun (Scribner)
Achmat Dangor, por Bitter Fruit (Atlantic Books)
Louise Dean, por Becoming Strangers (Scribner)
Lewis Desoto, por A Blade of Grass (Maia Press)
Sarah Hall, por The Electric Michelangelo (Faber & Faber)
James H. Paterson, por Cooking with Fernet Branca (Faber & Faber)
Justin Haythe, por The Honeymoon (Picador)
Shirley Hazzard, por The Great Fire (Virago)
Alan Hollinghurst, por The Line of Beauty (Picador)
Gail Jones, por Sixty Lights (Harvill Press)
David Mitchell, por Cloud Atlas (Sceptre)
Sam North, por The Unnumbered (Scribner)
Nicholas Shakespeare, por Snowleg (Harvill Press)
Matt Thorne, por Cherry (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Colm Tóibín, por The Master (Picador)
Gerard Woodward, por I'll go to Bed at Noon (Chatto & Windus)