1997 longlist

Margaret Atwood Alias Grace - shortlist

Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Mistress of Spices

Joan Brady Death Comes for Peter Pan

Joan Didion The Last Thing He Wanted

Linda Grant The Cast Iron Shore

Siri Hustvedt The Enchantment of Lily Dahl

Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of My Mother

Laurie R King With Child

Ann-Marie MacDonald Fall on your Knees

Deirdre Madden One by One in the Darkness - shortlist

Jane Mendelsohn I Was Amelia Earhart - shortlist

Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces - winner

E Annie Proulx Accordion Crimes - shortlist

Leone Ross All the Blood is Red

Manda Scott Hen's Teeth - shortlist

Paulina Simons Red Leaves

Meera Syal Anita and Me

Jeanette Winterson Gut Symmetries

Mary Kay Zuravleff The Frequency of Souls