Electric Spark
Frances Wilson
2025 The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Entries opened
10 April 2025
Longlist announced
4 September 2025
Shortlist announced
2 October 2025
Winner announced
4 November 2025
The winner
How to End a Story
Collected Diaries
Published by: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, The Orion Publishing Group
The shortlist
The longlist
Meet the judges for 2025
The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year.
Robbie Millen
Literary editor at the Times and The Sunday Times
Pratinav Anil
Historian and author
Inaya Folarin Iman
Broadcast journalist and founder of The Equiano Project
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Biographer, cultural historian and novelist
Rachel Lloyd
Deputy Culture Editor at The Economist
Peter Parker
Biographer and author
