Books & authors

Shortlist

2014

Empire of Necessity

Greg Grandin

Shortlist

2014

Common People

Alison Light

Shortlist

2014

Village of Secrets Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

Caroline Moorehead

Longlist

2014

God’s Traitors Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England

Jessie Childs

Longlist

2014

The Mighty Dead Why Homer matters

Adam Nicolson

Longlist

2014

In These Times Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815

Jenny Uglow

Longlist

2014

Romany and Tom A Memoir

Ben Watt

Shortlist

2013

Empires of the Dead

David Crane

Shortlist

2013

Under Another Sky

Charlotte Higgins

Longlist

2013

Small Wars, Far Away Places

Michael Burleigh

Longlist

2013

The Memory Palace

Edward Hollis

Longlist

2013

Modernity Britain Opening the Box

David Kynaston