2004 - 2005 Nominations
| Author | Book | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Remington, Stella | At Risk | Hutchinson |
| Trigell, Jonathan | Boy A | Serpents Tail |
| Anderson, Louise | Perception of Death | Hutchinson |
| Griffiths, Neil | Betrayal in Naples | Penguin Viking |
| Allen, Candace | Valaida | Virago |
| Rosoff, Meg | How I Live Now | Penguin |
| Long, Kate | The Bad Mother's Handbook | Picador |
| Newton, William | Two Pound Tram | Bloomsbury |
| Rosenheim, Andrew | Stillriver | Hutchinson |
| Hyland, MJ | How the Light Gets In. | Century |
| Leigh, Danny | The Greatest Gift | Faber and Faber |
| Tomlinson, Nick | Saint Valentine | Bantam |
| Collins, Richard | The Land as Viewed from the Sea | seren |
| Salway, Sarah | Something Beginning with | Bloomsbury |
| Cooke, Sophie | The Glass House | Hutchinson |
| Dean, Louise | Becoming Strangers | Scribner |
| Wenkert, Simonetta | The Sunlit Stage | Bloomsbury |
| Quigley, Sheila | Run for Home | Century |
| Nicholson, William | The Society of Others | Doubleday |
| Connor, John | Phoenix | Orion |
| Ahern, Cecelia | PS, I Love You | Harper Collins |
| Cartwright, Anthony | The Afterglow | Tindal Press |
| Drake, Bryan | Richard's Way | Vanguard |
| Fellowes, Julian | Snobs | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| French, Susan | The 79 Series | Vanguard |
| Gordon, Dee | Meat Market | Vanguard |