British Academy Book Prize 2025

The British Academy Book Prize rewards and celebrates writing grounded in high-quality research – works of non-fiction that will inspire readers to deepen their understanding of people, society and cultures across time and place.

Updated October 21, 2025
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Africonomics : a history of Western ignorance
Everill, Bronwen
Paper Book
'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It's A Continent
Sick of it : the global fight for women's health
Harman, Sophie.
Paper Book
A powerful call to confront the reasons why politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic'Radical and thought-provoking, this book should drive us all to action - and the author tells us how' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain...
The burning earth : a material history of the last 500 years
Amrith, Sunil.
Paper Book
In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese...
The golden road : how ancient India transformed the world
Dalrymple, William
Paper Book
The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse...
Sound tracks : uncovering our musical past
Lawson, Graeme
Paper Book
A transporting voyage of archaeological discovery: Sound Tracks unearths instruments from around the world and across time, releasing the past's musical secrets for the first time. **Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize 2025** 'A thrilling...
The baton and the cross : Russia's church from pagans to Putin
Ash, Lucy
Paper Book

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