Orwell Prize Political Fiction 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 August 6, 2025
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Heart, be at peace
Ryan, Donal
Paper Book
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-listed, bestselling author of Strange Flowers and The Queen of Dirt Island 'Beautiful...a book full of love and hope, more needed in these days than ever' Kit de Waal 'I am blown away by the...
Dream count : a novel
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A publishing event...
Parallel Lines
St Aubyn, Edward.
Paper Book
'We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I'm very pleased we have...' It is summer. Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reality and a hunger to connect with the mother who abandoned him....
Precipice
Harris, Robert
Paper Book
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley - aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless - is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than...
The accidental immigrants
McMillan, Joanna
Paper Book
There are rivers in the sky
Shafak, Elif
Paper Book
'A storm is approaching Nineveh, the sky swollen with impending rain. One of the clouds approaching the world's largest and wealthiest city, built on the banks of the river Tigris, is bigger and darker than the others-and more impatient. It floats suspended above a majestic building adorned with...
Universality : a novel
Brown, Natasha (Novelist)
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * "A bold and memorable achievement."--The Booker Prize 2025 judges Remember--words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power, hailed as "a nesting doll of satire that...
Harrow
Eaton, Noah
Paper Book
A darkly comic novel of subterfuge, whisky glasses, and the drive of an underdog to find the truth, no matter the consequences... Welcome to the The Harrow, last survivor of London's once-notorious muckraking magazines. John Salmon, its battle-hardened editor, and his...

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