Madeleine Bunting The Plot (Granta)
William Fiennes The Music Room (Picador)
Daniyal Mueenuddin In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Bloomsbury) 
Kachi A Ozumba The Shadow of a Smile (Alma Books)
Iain Sinclair Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire (Hamish Hamilton)
Ian Thomson The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica (Faber)

The prize is worth £10,000 and is awarded to a book of "the highest literary merit best evoking the spirit of place"