Books & authors

Shortlist

2012

Return of a King

William Dalrymple

Shortlist

2012

The Old Ways

Robert MacFarlane

Shortlist

2012

The Spanish Holocaust

Paul Preston

Longlist

2012

One on One

Craig Brown

Longlist

2012

Grand Pursuit The Story of Economic Genuis

Sylvia Nasar

Winner

2011

Mao’s Great Famine The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe

Frank Dikötter

Shortlist

2011

Liberty's Exiles The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire

Maya Jasanoff

Shortlist

2011

The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves

Matt Ridley

Shortlist

2011

Bismarck A Life

Jonathan Steinberg

Shortlist

2011

Reprobates The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

John Stubbs

Longlist

2011

Afgantsy The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89

Rodric Braithwaite

Longlist

2011

Through the Language Glass How Words Colour Your World

Guy Deutscher