Orwell Prize Political Writing Finalists 2025

The Orwell Prizes aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics. The winning entries should strive to meet Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. They should be of equal excellence in style and content – the writing must be both political and artful. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/ There are two prizes : Political Writing Book Prize 2025 Finalists and Political Fiction Book Prize 2025 Finalists

Updated June 18, 2025
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At the edge of empire : a family's reckoning with China
Wong, Edward
Paper Book
Winner of the Baifang Schell Book Prize * 2025 Orwell Prize Finalist One of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of 2024 "A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along." --The Wall Street Journal "In telling this...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign...
Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence
Husain, Mishal.
Paper Book
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal ... One can't help...
Looking at Women, Looking at War
Amelina, Victoria.
Paper Book
WINNER, THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING SHORT LIST, THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING WITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOOD A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Remarkable...powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict."...
Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin: Russia's Church From Pagans To Putin
Ash, Lucy.
Paper Book
The coming storm : a journey into the conspiracy machine
Gatehouse, Gabriel
Paper Book
\"Gabriel Gatehouse is a brilliant spelunker of the rabbit holes of American political culture. A spellbinding storyteller and reader of the runes of the strange times we live in.\" - Louis Theroux Is this how democracy dies? The Coming Storm...
Forbidden garden, the
Parkin, Simon
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American and The Economist The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world's first seed bank who made "the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life...
The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991
Zubok, Vladislav.
Paper Book
Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union? In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary...

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