2003 - 2004 Nominations
| Book | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| I Don’t Know How She Does It | Allison Pearson |
Chatto |
| The Impressionist | Hari Kunzru | Penguin |
| Dog Days | Jeffrey Lee | Bantam |
| The Cutting Room | Louise Welsh | Cannongate |
| Offcomer | Jo Baker | Heinemann |
| Spit Against The Wind | Anna Smith | Review |
| Massive | Mickey Hutton | |
| Accidents In The Home |
Tessa Halbey | Jonathan Cape |
| Don’t Try This At Home | Katie Pearson | |
| Isabel And Rocco | Anna Stothard | Arrow |
| Sleb | Andrew Holmes | Sceptre |
| London Dust | Lee Jackson | Arrow |
| Politics | Adam Thirlwell | Jonathan Cape |
| Homage To A Firing Squad | Tariq Goddard | Sceptre |
| Erskine’s Box | Kym Lloyd | Sceptre |
| On Cape Three Points | Christopher Wakling | Picador |
| Brick Lane | Monica Ali | Doubleday |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Hadden | Jonathan Cape |
| Thinking of England | Nicola Daly | Pegasus |
| Diamond White Crystals | David Maxwell-Lees | Pegasus |
| The Enemy Within |
Catherine Phillips | Pegasus |
| Unknown Soldiers | Mark Leech | Pegasus |
| Family Bites | Lisa Williams | Pegasus |
| Sundoom | Tony Hollett | Pegasus |
| The First Diary of William Reynolds | John L Ward | Pegasus |
| An English Superhero | Mark Cooke | Pegasus |
| Running From The Darkness | Richard Byron | Pegasus |
| The Song of Names | Norman Lebrecht | Headline |
| Backlash | Roderic Duncan | |
| Skywalking | Jemma Kennedy | Penguin |
| If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things | Jon McGregor | Bloomsbury |