Baillie Gifford Prize

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox award The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award. With its motto "All the best stories are true", the prize covers current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. The competition is open to authors of any nationality whose work is published in the UK in English.<ref name="home">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year. Formerly named after English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, the award was renamed in 2015 after Baillie Gifford, an investment management firm and the primary sponsor. Since 2016, the annual dinner and awards ceremony has been sponsored by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

The prize is governed by the Board of Directors of The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction Limited, a not-for-profit company. Since 2018, the Chair of the Board has been Sir Peter Bazalgette, who succeeded Stuart Proffitt, the chair since 1999. In 2015, Toby Mundy was appointed as the Prize's first director.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:TOClimit

History

Prior to the establishment of the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's premier literary award for non-fiction was the NCR Book Award, which had been established in 1987.<ref name=beevor>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1997, the NCR Award experienced a scandal when it was revealed the judges, many of them chosen for their popularity rather than literary qualities, had used "ghost readers" and were not expected to read the books they voted on.<ref name=mccrum/> Because of this and other problems the award ceased operations.<ref name=mccrum>Template:Cite news</ref> In response, one of the previous winners of NCR Award, the historian Peter Hennessy, approached Stuart Proffitt, a Publishing Director at Penguin Press, with the idea for a new award. An anonymous benefactor was found who funded the establishment of the Prize,<ref name=beevor/> which was named after the English 18th-century author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

From its inception until 2001, the prize was independently financed by the founding benefactor.<ref name=beevor/> In 2002, it was taken over by the BBC and re-named the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize and managed by BBC Four.<ref name=beevor/> In 2009, the name was amended to the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction<ref name="17april">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and managed by BBC Two. The new name reflected the BBC's commitment to broadcasting coverage of the Prize on the BBC2 programme, The Culture Show.<ref name="17april" /> In 2016, the name was changed to the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, after its new primary sponsor, the Edinburgh-based investment management company Baillie Gifford.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Prior to the 2009 name change, the winner received Template:Currency, and each finalist received Template:Currency. After 2009, the award was Template:Currency for the winner, and each finalist received Template:Currency.<ref name="17april" /> In February 2012, the steering committee for the prize announced that a new sponsor had been found for the prize, an anonymous philanthropist, enabling the prize money to be raised to Template:Currency.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2015, funding for the prize was arranged by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, while the organisers sought new primary sponsors from 2016 onwards.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2016, under new sponsors Baillie Gifford, the prize money was restored to Template:Currency for the winner.

In 2019, following the announcement that Baillie Gifford will sponsor the award until at least 2026, the prize money was increased to £50,000.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

It is widely recognised as the UK's most prestigious award for non-fiction authors.<ref name="flood2009long">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Winners and shortlists

1990s

1990s Samuel Johnson Prize winners and shortlists

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1999Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Stalingrad	Template:Won	<ref name="bbc4winners" />
	Template:Sortname	Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris (about Adolf Hitler)	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man (about Pontius Pilate)	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-1999" />
	Template:Sortname	C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-1999" />
	Template:Sortname	Coleridge: Darker Reflections (about Samuel Taylor Coleridge)	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-1999" />
	Template:Sortname	The Wealth and Poverty of Nations	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-1999" />

2000s

2000s Samuel Johnson Prize winners and shortlists

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2000Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Berlioz: Volume 2	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Playing the Moldovans at Tennis	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats (about W. B. Yeats)	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-2000" />
	Template:Sortname	Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-2000" />
	Template:Sortname	Deliver us from Evil: Warlords, Peacekeepers and a World of Endless Conflict	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-2000" />
	Template:Sortname	Karl Marx (about Karl Marx)	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-2000" />
2001Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Won	<ref name="bbc4winners" />
	Template:Sortname	Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia	Template:Sho	<ref name="gibbon-2001" />
	Template:Sortname	Rimbaud (about Arthur Rimbaud)	Template:Sho	<ref name="gibbon-2001" />
	Template:Sortname	Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin (about Grigory Potemkin)	Template:Sho	<ref name="gibbon-2001" />
	Template:Sortname	John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 (about John Maynard Keynes)	Template:Sho	<ref name="gibbon-2001" />
2002Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War	Template:Won	<ref name="bbc4winners" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="branigan-2002" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="branigan-2002" />
	Template:Sortname	Churchill: a Biography (about Winston Churchill)	Template:Sho	<ref name="branigan-2002" />
	Template:Sortname	Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia	Template:Sho	<ref name="branigan-2002" />
2003Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Pushkin: A Biography (about Alexander Pushkin)	Template:Won	<ref name="bbc4winners" />
	Template:Sortname	Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="ezard-2003" />
	Template:Sortname	Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex	Template:Sho	<ref name="ezard-2003" />
	Template:Sortname	Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self	Template:Sho	<ref name="ezard-2003" />
	Template:Sortname	Nelson: Love and Fame (about Lord Nelson)	Template:Sho	<ref name="ezard-2003" />
2004Template:EFN	Template:Sortname	Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall	Template:Won	<ref name="bbc4winners" />
	Template:Sortname	Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	John Clare: A Biography (about John Clare)	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-2004" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-2004" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-2004" />
	Template:Sortname	Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic	Template:Sho	<ref name="prize-2004" />
2005Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (about B. S. Johnson)	Template:Won	<ref name="bbc4winners" />
	Template:Sortname	Stuart: A Life Backwards	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found	Template:Sho	<ref name="pauli-2005" />
	Template:Sortname	Istanbul: Memories and the City	Template:Sho	<ref name="pauli-2005" />
	Template:Sortname	Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909–1954 (about Henri Matisse)	Template:Sho	<ref name="pauli-2005" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="pauli-2005" />
2006Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare	Template:Won	<ref name="bbc4winners" />
	Template:Sortname	Untold Stories	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="ezard-2006" />
	Template:Sortname	Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family & Fatherland	Template:Sho	<ref name="ezard-2006" />
	Template:Sortname	Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945	Template:Sho	<ref name="ezard-2006" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="ezard-2006" />
2007Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties	Template:Sho	<ref name="long-2008" />
	Template:Sortname	Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell (about Gertrude Bell)	Template:Sho	<ref name="long-2008" />
	Template:Sortname	Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control	Template:Sho	<ref name="long-2008" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="long-2008" />
2008Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Crow Country	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2008" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2008" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname (about V. S. Naipaul)	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2008" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2008" />
2009Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Leviathan or, The Whale	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Bad Science	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2009" />
	Template:Sortname	The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2009" />
	Template:Sortname	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2009" />
	Template:Sortname	Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2009" />

2010s

2010s Baillie Gifford Prize winner and shortlist

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Blood Knots: On Fathers, Friendship and Fishing	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2012" />
	Template:Sortname	Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2012" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2012" />
	Template:Sortname	Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2012" />
2011Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (biography of Caravaggio)	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World	Template:Sho	<ref name="short2011" />
	Template:Sortname	The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves	Template:Sho	<ref name="short2011" />
	Template:Sortname	Bismarck: A Life (biography of Otto von Bismarck)	Template:Sho	<ref name="short2011" />
	Template:Sortname	Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War	Template:Sho	<ref name="short2011" />
2012Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2012">Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2012" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2012" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2012" />
	Template:Sortname	Strindberg: A Life (about August Strindberg)	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2012" />
2013Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision led to the Creation of WWI's World Graves	Template:Sho	<ref name="higgins-2013">Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan	Template:Sho	<ref name="higgins-2013" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="higgins-2013" />
	Template:Sortname	Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain	Template:Sho	<ref name="higgins-2013" />
	Template:Sortname	Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography	Template:Sho	<ref name="higgins-2013" />
2014Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	H Is for Hawk	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Roy Jenkins: A Biography (about Roy Jenkins)	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2014" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2014" />
	Template:Sortname	Common People: The History of an English Family	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2014" />
	Template:Sortname	Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France	Template:Sho	<ref name="flood-2014" />
2015Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently	Template:Won	<ref name="BBCNov15">Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (about Ted Hughes)	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Landmarks	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2015" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2015" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2015" />
	Template:Sortname	This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2015" />
2016Template:EFN	Template:Sortname	East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="shelf awareness-2016">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Negroland: A Memoir	Template:Sho	<ref name="kennedy-2016" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2016" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="kennedy-2016" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2016" />
2017Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="shelf awareness-2017">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2017" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2017" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2017" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2017" />
	Template:Sortname	To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2017" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2017" />
	Template:Sortname	Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492–1900	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2017" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2017" />
2018Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2018" />
	Template:Sortname	Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2018" />
	Template:Sortname	Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2018" />
	Template:Sortname	She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2018" />
2019Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="shelf awareness-2019">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2019" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2019" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname (about Lucian Freud)	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2019" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2019" />
	Template:Sortname	Maoism: A Global History	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2019" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2019" />
	Template:Sortname	Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2019" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2019" />

2020s

2020s Baillie Gifford Prize winner and shortlist

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time	Template:Won
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="shelf awareness-2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="winik-2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2020" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2020" /><ref name="winik-2020" />
	Template:Sortname	Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2020" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2020" /><ref name="winik-2020" />
	Template:Sortname	Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2020" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2020" /><ref name="winik-2020" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2020" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2020" /><ref name="winik-2020" />
2021Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="shelf awareness-2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2021" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2021" />
	Template:Sortname	Things I Have Withheld	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2021" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2021" />
	Template:Sortname	Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell (about Robert Maxwell)	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2021" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2021" />
	Template:Sortname	Free: Coming of Age at the End of History	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2021" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2021" />
2022Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (about John Donne)	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="merlene-2022">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="shelf awareness-2022">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname (about Rudolf Vrba)	Template:Sho	<ref name="schaub-2022" /><ref name="merlene-2022" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2022" />
	Template:Sortname	My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route	Template:Sho	<ref name="schaub-2022" /><ref name="merlene-2022" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2022" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="schaub-2022" /><ref name="merlene-2022" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2022" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Template:Sho	<ref name="schaub-2022" /><ref name="merlene-2022" /><ref name="shelf awareness-2022" />
2023Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,	Template:Sho	<ref name="guardian2023" />
	Template:Sortname	Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849	Template:Sho	<ref name="guardian2023" />
	Template:Sortname	Time's Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and The Music of Remembrance	Template:Sho	<ref name="guardian2023" />
	Template:Sortname	Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century	Template:Sho	<ref name="guardian2023" />
2024Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Question 7	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	The Story of a Heart	Template:Sho	<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Nuclear War: A Scenario	Template:Sho	<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
	Template:Sortname	A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial	Template:Sho	<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
	Template:Sortname	Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin	Template:Sho	<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
	Template:Sortname	Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World	Template:Sho	<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
2025Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	How to End a Story: Collected Diaries	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief	Template:Sho	<ref name=":2" />
	Template:Sortname	Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World	Template:Sho	<ref name=":2" />
	Template:Sortname	Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe	Template:Sho	<ref name=":2" />
	Template:Sortname	Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark	Template:Sho	<ref name=":2" />

25th Anniversary Winner of Winners Award

In 2023, marking the 25th anniversary of the prize, a one-off 'Winner of Winners' Award was announced.<ref name="prize-2023">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The judging panel was chaired by Jason Cowley (New Statesman editor-in-chief) and included Shahidha Bari (academic, critic and broadcaster), Sarah Churchwell (journalist, author and academic), and Frances Wilson (biographer and critic).<ref name="prize-2023" />

Author	Title	Win Year	Result	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare	2006	Template:Won	<ref name="shaffi-2023">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="winner2023">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time	2020	Template:Sho	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="schaub-2023">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest	2012	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2023" /><ref name="schaub-2023" />
Template:Sortname	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	2010	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2023" /><ref name="schaub-2023" />
Patrick Radden Keefe	Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty	2021	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2023" /><ref name="schaub-2023" />
Template:Sortname	Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War	2002	Template:Sho	<ref name="short-2023" /><ref name="schaub-2023" />

See also

• British literature
• English literature
• List of years in literature
• List of literary awards
• Prizes named after people

External links

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