Baillie Gifford Prize 2025Unpublished

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...

Boundless deep: young tennyson, science and the crisis of be

Holmes, Richard

Paper Book

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE* A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt Books A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning,...

Lone Wolf : Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness

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...

The Revolutionists : The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked The 1970s

Burke, Jason.

Paper Book

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out around the...

How to End a Story : Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

Garner, Helen.

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * For the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner, inviting readers into the world behind the novels and nonfiction of a literary force. "This is one for the introverts -- the wary and the peevish,...

Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World

Marozzi, Justin.

Paper Book

Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, complex and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage, which brings to life the voices of the enslaved in stories of eighth-century concubines and ninth-century revolts, thirteenth...

John & Paul : A Love Story in Songs

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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