This is a list of winners of the Dundee International Book Prize by year.
List Year Author Title Genre(s) Nationality 2000 Andrew Murray Scott Tumulus Novel 2002 Claire-Marie Watson The Curewife Novel 2005 Malcolm Archibald Whales for the Wizard Novel 2007 Fiona DunscombeThe Triple Point of Water Novel 2009 Chris Longmuir Dead Wood Novel 2010 Alan Wright Act of Murder Novel 2011 Simon Ashe-BrownNothing Human Left Novel 2012 Jacob M. AppelThe Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up Novel 2013 Nicola White In the Rosary Garden Novel 2014 Amy Mason The Other Ida Novel 2015 Martin Cathcart Froden Devil Take the Hindmost Novel 2016 Jessica Thummel The Cure for Lonely Novel
2000 Andrew Murray Scott's book Tumulus (inaugural winner 2000) detailed bohemian Dundee through the 60s and 70s to the present day. The judges said that it "reveals a great knowledge and love of Dundee while paying the city the compliment of being intelligently amused by various aspects of its life and outlook".
2002 Claire-Marie Watson's The Curewife (2002) drew on the tale of Dundee's last execution of a witch – Grissel Jaffray in 1669. Hilary Mantel said that it won as it had a "highly charged atmosphere and its real sense of the dark and brooding".
2005 Malcolm Archibald's Whales for a Wizard (2005) was an adventure story based around the whaling industry in Dundee in the 1860s. It was called an "old-fashioned, traditional, rip-roaring adventure story" by Ian Rankin.
2007 Fiona Dunscombe's The Triple Point of Water (2007) drew on her experiences of working in Soho during the 1980s.
2009 Chris Longmuir's Dead Wood (2009) was a grizzly crime novel set in a world of violence and gangland retribution. The List calls it "lacklustre", "Flat and clunky", and "a poor addition to the Scottish crime genre".
2010 Alan Wright's Act of Murder (2010) was a tale of magic, poisonings and thespians, with some gruesome murders thrown in for good measure set in Victorian times in Lancashire. It was called a "worthy winner for a prize" in a review by Fife Today.
2011 Simon Ashe-Browne's Nothing Human Left (2011) was a psychological thriller set in a Dublin public school as a schoolboy's criminal desires reach a frightening conclusion.
2012 Jacob Appel's The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up was a satire of post-9/11 patriotism in the United States, called by Stephen Fry, a 2012 judge, "darkly comic", and fellow judge Philip Pullman called it "Engaging, funny, ingenious, even charming".
2013 Nicola White's 2013 winner In the Rosary Garden (2013) is a murder mystery set in a convent school; being described by critics as "as good as it gets", A. L. Kennedy, a 2013 judge. called it "courageous and intelligent"
2014 Amy Mason's The Other Ida won the 2014 prize. The novel focuses on two sisters in the wake of their mother's death; their struggle and the tension between the siblings play out as the two attempt to come to terms with loss.
2015 Martin Cathcart Froden's Devil Take the Hindmost takes place in London during the 1920s and revolves around a cyclist caught up in the fevered bets and loan sharks of the velodrome racing scene.
2016 The final prize was awarded to Jessica Thummel's The Cure for Lonely.
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