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
A 'Book of the Year' in The Economist, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Air Mail, Foreign Affairs and The New York Times 'A work of singular importance . . . balanced, original, human, accessible, and riveting' - Philippe Sands, author of East-West Street'A comprehensive, landmark and riveting...
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
A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin, by the prize-winning author of I Am Dynamite!
Knife : meditations after an attempted murder
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
A moving and life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from internationally renowned writer Salman Rushdie 'A story of hatred defeated by love' Guardian 'Absolutely stunning...the ugliest thing turned into the most beautiful'...
Revolusi : Indonesia and the birth of the modern world
Van Reybrouck, David
Paper Book
A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on...
Story of a heart, the
Clarke, Rachel
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECT FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES...
Question 7
Flanagan, Richard
Paper Book
**Winner of 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

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