Orwell Prize Political Writing Finalists 2025

The Orwell Prizes aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics. The winning entries should strive to meet Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. They should be of equal excellence in style and content – the writing must be both political and artful. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/ There are two prizes : Political Writing Book Prize 2025 Finalists and Political Fiction Book Prize 2025 Finalists

Updated June 18, 2025
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At the edge of empire : a family's reckoning with China
Wong, Edward
Paper Book
The essential history of modern China, told through the story of one family
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic...
Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence
Husain, Mishal.
Paper Book
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal ... One can't help...
Looking at women looking at war : a war and justice diary
Amelina, Viktorii͡a
Paper Book
"Remarkable...powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict." --New York Times Book Review "Unsparing and impossible-to-forget... its shape and urgency dictated by war and by its author's shining life so abruptly shredded into night."...
The coming storm : a journey into the conspiracy machine
Gatehouse, Gabriel
Paper Book
"Gabriel Gatehouse is a brilliant spelunker of the rabbit holes of American political culture. A spellbinding storyteller and reader of the runes of the strange times we live in." - Louis Theroux Is this how democracy dies? The Coming Storm is...
The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991
Zubok, Vladislav.
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'Monumental and highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok brings a prescient and fresh perspective' Financial Times A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed...

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