Books & authors

Shortlist

2021

Fall The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

John Preston

Shortlist

2021

Free Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi

Longlist

2021

Consumed A Sister's Story

Arifa Akbar

Longlist

2021

Blood Legacy Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

Alex Renton

Longlist

2021

In Memory of Memory

Maria Stepanova

Longlist

2021

Burning Man The Ascent of D H Lawrence

Frances Wilson

Winner

2020

One Two Three Four The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

Shortlist

2020

Black Spartacus The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Shortlist

2020

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield What War Does to Women

Christina Lamb

Shortlist

2020

Stranger in the Shogun's City A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Amy Stanley

Shortlist

2020

The Haunting of Alma Fielding A True Ghost Story

Kate Summerscale

Longlist

2020

Labours of Love The Crisis of Care

Madeleine Bunting