# List of winners of the Dundee International Book Prize

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 | United Kingdom |
| 2002 | Claire-Marie Watson | The Curewife | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2005 | Malcolm Archibald | Whales for the Wizard | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2007 | Fiona Dunscombe | The Triple Point of Water | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2009 | Chris Longmuir | Dead Wood | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2010 | Alan Wright | Act of Murder | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2011 | Simon Ashe-Brown | Nothing Human Left | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2012 | Jacob M. Appel | The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up | Novel | United States |
| 2013 | Nicola White | In the Rosary Garden | Novel | Ireland |
| 2014 | Amy Mason | The Other Ida | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2015 | Martin Cathcart Froden | Devil Take the Hindmost | Novel | Sweden |
| 2016 | Jessica Thummel | The Cure for Lonely | Novel | United States |

## 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.