For each of the past 40 years, The Man Booker Prize has recognized the best novel written in English, from either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.

1969. Something to Answer For by PH Newby

1970. The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

1971. In a Free State by VS Naipaul

1972. G by John Berger

1973. The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell

1974. Holiday by Stanley Middleton (shared)

1974. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (shared)

1975. Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1976. Saville by David Storey

1977. Staying On by Paul Scott

1978. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

1979. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

1980. Rites of Passage by William Golding

1981. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

1982. Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally

1983. Life & Times of Michael K by JM Coetzee

1984. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

1985. The Bone People by Keri Hulme

1986. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

1987. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

1988. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

1989. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

1990. Possession by A.S. Byatt

1991. The Famished Road by Ben Okri

1992. Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (shared)

1992. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (shared)

1993. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

1994. How late it was, how late by James Kelman

1995. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

1996. Last Orders by Graham Swift

1997. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

1998. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

1999. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

2000. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

2001. The History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

2002. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

2003. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

2004. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

2005. The Sea by John Banville

2006. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

2007. The Gathering by Anne Enright