W H Smith Book Award - Literary Award

• 2004 The Time of our singing Richard Powers
• 2003 The Little friend Donna Tartt
• 2002 Atonement Ian McEwan
• 2001 The Human stain Philip Roth
• 2000 The Soldier's return Melvyn Bragg
• 1999 Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge
• 1998 Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes
• 1997 A People's tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924 Orlando Figes
• 1996 Landscape and memory Simon Schama
• 1995 Open secrets Alice Munro
• 1994 A Suitable boy Vikram Seth
• 1993 Daughters of the house Michele Roberts
• 1992 The Scramble for Africa Thomas Pakenham
• 1991 Omeros Derek Walcott
• 1990 A Careless widow and other stories V. S. Pritchett
• 1989 A Turbulent, seditious and factious people - John Bunyan and his church Christopher Hill
• 1988 The Fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 Robert Hughes
• 1987 Collected poems 1953 - 1985 Elizabeth Jennings
• 1986 The Good terrorist Doris Lessing
• 1985 The Pork butcher David Hughes
• 1984 Required writing Philip Larkin
• 1983 Wise virgin A.N. Wilson
• 1982 Last Waltz in Vienna: the destruction of a family 1842-1942 George Clare
• 1981 The Shooting party Isabel Colegate
• 1980 Selected Poems Thom Gunn
• 1979 Life in the English country house Mark Girouard
• 1978 A Time of gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor
• 1977 Slim: The Standardbearer Ronald Lewin
• 1976 North Seamus Heaney
• 1975 Wilfred Owen Jon Stallworthy
• 1974 Temporary kings Anthony Powell
• 1973 Catholics Brian Moore
• 1972 The Lost Country Kathleen Raine
• 1971 New lives, new landscapes Nan Fairbrother
• 1970 The French Lieutenant's woman John Fowles
• 1969 John Keats Robert Gittings
• 1968 Mimic men V. S. Naipaul
• 1967 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
• 1966 A Child possessed R. C. Hutchinson
• 1965 Beginning again Leonard Woolf
• 1964 Meditations on a hobby-horse Ernst H. Gombrich
• 1963 The Birthday King Gabriel Fielding
• 1962 We think the world of you J. R. Ackerley
• 1961 Friday's footprint Nadine Gordimer
• 1960 Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee
• 1959 Voss Patrick White