1996 longlist

Pat Barker The Ghost Road

Julia Blackburn The Book of Colour - shortlist

Ajay Close Official and Doubtful

Lindsey Collen The Rape of Sita

Isla Dewar Keeping Up with Magda

Helen Dunmore A Spell of Winter - winner

Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower

Lesley Glaister The Private Parts of Women

Stephanie Grant The Passion of Alice

Liz Jensen Egg Dancing

A L Kennedy So I am Glad

Pagan Kennedy Spinsters - shortlist

Andrea Levy Never Far from Nowhere

Mary Morrissy Mother of Pearl

Jane Rogers Promised Lands

Elspeth Sandys River Lines

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses - shortlist

Anne Tyler Ladder of Years - shortlist

Marianne Wiggins Eveless Eden - shortlist