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 Muriel Spark
Wilson, Frances.
Paper Book
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, LONDON STANDARD AND WASHINGTON POST 'Absolutely mesmerising. I was possessed by this book...
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 Faultlines of Europe
Weymouth, Adam.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE AN ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025 A FINANCIAL...
How to end a story : collected diaries 1978-1998
Garner, Helen
Paper Book
Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book. Spanning two decades--from the publication of her lightning-rod debut novel in the late 70s, to the throes of a consuming affair in the late 80s, and the messiness and pain of a disintegrating marriage in...
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
Doucet, Lyse.
Paper Book
Top 3 Sunday Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Nero Book Award Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and Economist Book of...
Things in nature merely grow
Li, Yiyun
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 'The best book I have read this year' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Beautiful' DOUGLAS STUART 'Extraordinary' SARAH MOSS 'A formidable testament to a mother's love' SARA COLLINS 'There is no good way...
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Demick, Barbara.
Paper Book
In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to adopt a Chinese toddler they thought had been abandoned. Their understanding had...

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