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 Dame Muriel
Wilson, Frances
Paper Book
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 century. "Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is,"...
Lone wolf
Weymouth, Adam
Paper Book
An illuminating account of a lone wolf journeying across the Alps into Italy, and what the resurgence of wolves says about our connection to nature, immigration, and one another--from an award-winning journalist. "Lone Wolf is a deeply fascinating story, grippingly told...
Captives and companions : a history of slavery and the slave trade in the Islamic world.
Marozzi, Justin
Paper Book
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction* The definitive history of the slave trade in the Islamic world--a story that has been overshadowed by its notorious, but shorter-lived, Atlantic counterpart. Slavery in the Islamic world has a long,...
John & Paul : a love story in songs
Leslie, Ian
Paper Book
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "We think we know everything, but author Ian Leslie proves otherwise. His new book, 'John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,' is, astonishingly, one of the few to offer a detailed narrative of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's...
Things in nature merely grow
Li, Yiyun
Paper Book
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. "There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. "There...
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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