Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women.

The winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is Rachel Clarke’s clear-sighted and vital exploration into the human experience behind organ donation, The Story of a Heart.

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Updated June 19, 2025
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Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking age
Barraclough, Eleanor
Paper Book
In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. ...
The eagle and the hart: the tragedy of richard ii and henry iv
Castor, Helen.
Paper Book
From an acclaimed historian comes an epic tale of power and betrayal: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose tumultuous reigns shaped the course of English history. Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just three months apart, were...
Why Fish Dont Exist: A Story of Loss, Love and the Hidden Order of Life
Miller, Lulu
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab,...
The peepshow : the murders at 10 Rillington Place
Summerscale, Kate
Paper Book
"A trove of thrilling material . . . skillfully examines the racism, sexism, economic privation and class prejudices that permeated postwar England . . . There's so much to admire in this engaging, deeply researched book." --The New York Times Book Review "An absorbing...

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