Books & authors

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

Longlist

2017

Mr Lear A Life of Art and Nonsense

Jenny Uglow

Winner

2016

East West Street On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Philippe Sands

Shortlist

2016

Second-hand Time

Svetlana Alexievich

Shortlist

2016

Negroland A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

Shortlist

2016

The Return Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

Hisham Matar