Books & authors

Shortlist

2019

Guest House for Young Widows Among The Women of ISIS

Azadeh Moaveni

Longlist

2019

I Will Never See the World Again

Ahmet Altan

Longlist

2019

The Anarchy The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

William Dalrymple

Longlist

2019

Homesick Why I Live in a Shed

Catrina Davies

Longlist

2019

The Ministry of Truth A Biography of George Orwell's 1984

Dorian Lynskey

Shortlist

2018

The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre

Shortlist

2018

Amateur A True Story About What Makes A Man

Thomas Page McBee

Shortlist

2017

Border A Journey to The Edge of Europe

Kapka Kassabova

Shortlist

2017

An Odyssey A Father, A Son and An Epic

Daniel Mendelsohn

Longlist

2017

Plot 29

Allan Jenkins

Longlist

2017

I Was Told to Come Alone My Journey Behind The Lines of Jihad

Souad Mekhennet

Longlist

2017

A Bold and Dangerous Family

Caroline Moorehead