Baillie Gifford Prize 2025

The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers. It covers all non-fiction in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. https://www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/

Updated October 21, 2025
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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark
Wilson, Frances.
Paper Book
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction The award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth...
Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe
Weymouth, Adam.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION * A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2025 * One of The Telegraph's Best Nature Books of 2025 An intimate account of an epic walking journey through a tense and shifting Europe in the footsteps of one...
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
Marozzi, Justin.
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a...
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs - 'The first new Beatles story in decades'
Leslie, Ian.
Paper Book
Instant New York Times bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, The Economist, and The Financial Times "We think we know everything, but author Ian Leslie proves otherwise. His new...
Things in nature merely grow
Li, Yiyun
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Long...
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Demick, Barbara.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy and the rise of international adoption--from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy "Remarkable . . . Barbara Demick...

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