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
The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. *Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non...
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Bass, Gary J.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'Magisterial' - Max Hastings, The Sunday Times 'Monumental'- Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement 'Every so often, a new work emerges of such...
Question 7
Flanagan, Richard
Paper Book
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** 'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times
A man of two faces : a memoir, a history, a memorial
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 'A triumphant memoir' Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize...
Wild Thing
Prideaux, Sue
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over thirty years - written by the award-winning author of...
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...
Story of a heart, the
Clarke, Rachel
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DEAR LIFE AND BREATHTAKING, A MAJOR TV DRAMA 'What...

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