Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 Longlist

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.

Updated September 18, 2024
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Nuclear war : a scenario
Jacobsen, Annie
Paper Book
Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Second by second and minute by minute, these are the real-life protocols that choreograph the end of civilisation as we know it. Frantic calls over secure...
A man of two faces : a memoir, a history, a memorial
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Paper Book
'A triumphant memoir' Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS, finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeThe highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwideWith...
Wild Thing
Prideaux, Sue
Paper Book
A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full...
Knife : meditations after an attempted murder
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the...
Revolusi : Indonesia and the birth of the modern world
Van Reybrouck, David
Paper Book
A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on...
The story of a heart
Clarke, Rachel (Physician)
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECT FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DEAR LIFE AND BREATHTAKING, A...
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
Scales, Helen.
Paper Book
An impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world's ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it.
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Shatz, Adam.
Paper Book
Longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 Prospect Magazine Books of the Year 2024: Lives Guardian Best Biographies & Memoirs 2024 Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he...
Question 7
Flanagan, Richard
Paper Book
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father...

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