Baillie Gifford Prize 2025

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. https://www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/

Updated October 21, 2025
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Lone wolf : walking the line between civilization and wildness
Weymouth, Adam.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION * A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2025 * One of The Telegraph's Best Nature Books of 2025 An intimate account of an epic walking journey through a tense and shifting Europe in the footsteps of one...
Revolutionists : The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked The 1970s
Burke, Jason
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out around the...
How to end a story : collected diaries, 1978-1998
Garner, Helen
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * For the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner, inviting readers into the world behind the novels and nonfiction of a literary force. "This is one for the introverts -- the wary and the peevish,...
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
Marozzi, Justin.
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a...
John & Paul : a love story in songs
Leslie, Ian
Paper Book
Instant New York Times bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, The Economist, and The Financial Times "We think we know everything, but author Ian Leslie proves otherwise. His new...
Things in nature merely grow
Li, Yiyun
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Long...
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove : From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Demick, Barbara
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy and the rise of international adoption--from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy "Remarkable . . . Barbara Demick...
Between The Waves: The Hidden History Of A Very British Revolution 1945-2016
McTague, Tom.
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction BR>A gripping, persuasive and authoritative account of Britain's long and fractious relationship with Europe. In Between the Waves, acclaimed journalist Tom McTague explores the underground history of...

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