Books & authors

Winner

2018

Chernobyl History of A Tragedy

Serhii Plokhy

Shortlist

2018

Imperial Twilight The Opium War and The End of China’s Last Golden Age

Stephen R Platt

Winner

2017

How to Survive a Plague

David France

Shortlist

2017

The Islamic Enlightenment The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason

Christopher de Bellaigue

Shortlist

2017

Border A Journey to The Edge of Europe

Kapka Kassabova

Shortlist

2017

Belonging The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900

Simon Schama

Longlist

2017

Red Famine Stalin’s War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

Longlist

2017

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Shortlist

2015

This Divided Island

Samanth Subramanian

Longlist

2015

Fighters in the Shadows

Robert Gildea

Longlist

2015

They All Love Jack

Bruce Robinson

Longlist

2015

Black Earth

Timothy Snyder