W H Smith Book Award - New Talent/Debut

2004

• Brick Lane Monica Ali Winner

2003

• London Irish Zane Radcliffe Winner

2002

• Backpack Emily Barr Winner
• The Mind Game Hector MacDonald
• The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
• The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri
• Kissing in Manhattan David Schickler

2001

• What we did on our holiday John Harding
• Marrow Tiffanie Darke
• White teeth Zadie Smith
• E: A novel Matt Beaumont
• Ice Station Matthew Reilly