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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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/

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Electric Spark : The Enigma of Muriel Spark
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,"...
Boundless deep: young tennyson, science and the crisis of be
Holmes, Richard
Paper Book
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder. Alfred Lord Tennyson is now remembered - if he is remembered at all - as the gloomily bearded Poet Laureate, author of...
Lone Wolf : Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness
Weymouth, Adam.
Paper Book
An intimate account of an epic walking journey through a tense and shifting Europe in the footsteps of one extraordinary wolf. In the winter of 2011, a young wolf, named Slavc by the scientists who collared him, left his natal pack's territory in Slovenia, embarking on what would...
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 & 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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