[6] Andrew Murray Scott's book Tumulus (inaugural winner 2000) detailed bohemian Dundee through the 60s and 70s to the present day.
Chris Longmuir's Dead Wood (2009) was a grizzly crime novel set in a world of violence and gangland retribution.
Simon Ashe-Browne's Nothing Human Left (2011) was a psychological thriller set in a Dublin public school as a schoolboy's criminal desires reach a frightening conclusion.
[7] Martin Cathcart Froden who is originally from Sweden, fought off tough competition winning the 2015 prize with his page turner – Devil Take The Hindmost in which he brilliantly evokes the seedier side of interwar London.
The Cure for Lonely (originally titled The Margins) is the coming-of-age story of Sam Gavin, a trans man who moves from Kansas to San Francisco in the summer of 1989.