2008
Too Beautiful to Dance by Diana Appleyard
That Summer Affair by Sarah Challis
The Baby Group by Rowan Coleman
The Best of Sisters by Dilly Court
One Last Summer by Catrin Collier
Oystercatchers by Susan Fletcher
Crooked Pieces by Sarah Grazebrook
I Did a Bad Thing by Linda Green
A Stranger In Burracombe by Lilian Harry
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas
Silk and Steel by Catherine King
The Chalet Girl by Kate Lace
The Leaving Of Liverpool by Maureen Lee
The Seven Year Itch by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees
Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes
Where Earth Meets Sky by Annie Murray
Pillow Talk by Freya North
Young Wives' Tales by Adele Parks
The Tea Planter's Lass by Janet MacLeod Trotter
An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi

2007
Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas (winner)

2006
Gardens of Delight by Erica James (winner)

2005
A Good Voyage by Katharine Davies (winner)

2004
Foreign Fruit by Jojo Moyes (winner)

2003
Playing James by Sarah Mason (winner)

2002
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (winner)

2001
Someone Like You by Cathy Kelly (winner)

2000
Dancing in the Dark by Maureen Lee (winner)

1999
Learning to Swim by Clare Chambers (winner)

1998
Kiss and Kin by Angela Lambert (winner)

1997
The Hours of the Night by Sue Gee (winner)

1996
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher (winner)

1995
Change of Heart by Charlotte Bingham (winner)

1994
Consider the Lily by Elizabeth Buchan (winner)

1993
Emily by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (winner)

1992
Sandstorm by June Knox-Mawer (winner)

1991
Phantom by Susan Kay (winner)

1990
Passing Glory by Reay Tannahill (winner)

1989
The Peacock's Feather by Sarah Woodhouse (winner)

1988
The Juniper Bush by Audrey Howard (winner)

1987
A Better World Than This by Marie Joseph (winner)

1986
Song Twice over by Brenda Jagger (winner)

1985
Sunrise by Rosie Thomas (winner)

1984
A Highly Respectable Marriage by Sheila Walsh (winner)

1983
Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson (winner)

1982
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald (winner)

1981
The Red Staircase by Gwendoline Butler (winner)

1980
Parson Harding's Daughter by Joanna Trollope (winner)