Booker Prize for Fiction 1970

Nominations

Winner	Troubles	J. G. Farrell
Winner	The Elected Member	Bernice Rubens
	Eva Trout	Elizabeth Bowen
	Bruno's Dream	Iris Murdoch
	Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel	William Trevor
	The Conjunction	Terence Wheeler
	The Birds on the Trees	Nina Bawden
	The Bay of Noon	Shirley Hazzard
	Fire From Heaven	Mary Renault
	The Driver's Seat	Muriel Spark
	The Vivisector	Patrick White
	The Hand Reared Boy	Brian Aldiss
	A Little of What You Fancy?	H. E. Bates
	A Place in England	Melvyn Bragg
	Down All the Days	Christy Brown
	Bomber	Len Deighton
	The Circle	Elaine Feinstein
	A Clubbable Woman	Reginald Hill
	I'm the King of the Castle	Susan Hill
	A Domestic Animal	Francis King
	The Fire Dwellers	Margaret Laurence
	Out of the Shelter	David Lodge
	A Fairly Honourable Defeat	Iris Murdoch
	Fireflies	Shiva Naipaul
	Master and Commander	Patrick O'Brian
	Head To Toe	Joe Orton
	A Guilty Thing Surprised	Ruth Rendell
	John Brown's Body	A. L. Barker