Literary Prizes and Awards
- 1981 Whitbread First Novel Award A Good Man in Africa
- 1982 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) An Ice-Cream War
- 1982 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize An Ice-Cream War
- 1982 Somerset Maugham Award A Good Man in Africa
- 1983 Selected as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists' by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council
- 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) Brazzaville Beach
- 1991 McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year Brazzaville Beach
- 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year The Blue Afternoon
- 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) The Blue Afternoon
- 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (shortlist) Any Human Heart
- 2006 Costa Book Award Restless
- 2007 British Book Awards Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (shortlist) Restless
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