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2022
Winner My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden Shortlist Behind Closed Doors by Polly Curtis Spike by Jeremy Farrar & Anjana Ahuja The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow Uncommon Wealth by Kojo Koram Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit The Right To Sex by Amia Srinivasan Shutdown by Adam Tooze Do Not Disturb by Michela Wrong |
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2021
Winner Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin’s Russia by Joshua Yaffa Shortlist Labours of Love - The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting Eat the Buddha - The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town by Barbara Demick Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor Longlist Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard Evans Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America by Bruno Macaes How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit |
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2020
Winner Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy Shortlist Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman Underland by Robert Macfarlane Margaret Thatcher: Volume 3: Herself Alone by Charles Moore The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Longlist Follow Me, Akhi: the Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani Maoism : A Global History by Julia Lovell The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 by Dorian Lynskey Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service |
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2019
Winner Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe Shortlist Moneyland by Oliver Bullough The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug The Growth Delusion by David Pilling Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah Longlist Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire by Akala The People vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett Hired by James Bloodworth Bad Girls by Caitlin Davies Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum A Certain Idea of France by Julian Jackson American Overdose by Chris McGreal Our Boys by Helen Parr |
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2018
Winner Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey Shortlist The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times by Christopher de Bellaigue Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine What You Did Not Tell by Mark Mazower Winter by Ali Smith Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills Longlist Why I ‘m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Threads from the Refugee Crisis by Kate Evans The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra Bitch Doctrine by Laurie Penny Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick |
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2017
Winner Citizen Clem by John Bew Shortlist The Seven by Ruth Dudley Edwards All Out War by Tim Shipman Island Story: Journeys Around Unfamiliar Britain by JD Taylor And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain by Adrian Tempany Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge Longlist The Power by Naomi Alderman The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar Black And British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga The Life Project by Helen Pearson Easternisation by Gideon Rachman The Marches by Rory Stewart Enough Said by Mark Thompson Cut by Hibo Wardere & Anna Wharton |
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2016
Winner The Invention of Russia by Arkady Ostrovsky Shortlist The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke Other People’s Money by John Kay The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky Circling the Square by Wendell Steavenson Longlist Promised you a Miracle: UK80 – 82 by Andy Beckett The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding How the French Think by Sudhir Hazareesingh More Human by Steve Human Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter The Silo Effect by Gillian Tett |
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2015
Winner Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek Shortlist Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies Hack Attack by Nick Davies Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim Longlist The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell Revolt on the Right by Robert Ford & Matthew Goodwin In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman Mammon's Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now by David Marquand In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre by Lara Pawson |
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2014
Winner This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson Shortlist Coolie Woman by Gaiutra Bahadur The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikotter The World’s Most Dangerous Place by James Fergusson The British Dream by David Goodhart Margaret Thatcher: Volume 1: Not for Turning by Charles Moore Longlist Sex and the Citadel by Shereen El Feki The General by Ahmed Errachidi Kith: the Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History by Catherine Merridale Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman The Confidence Trap by David Runciman One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag-Montefiore The XX Factor by Alison Wolf |
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2013
Winner A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by AT Williams Shortlist Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan On the Front Line by Marie Colvin Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway From the Ruins of the Empire by Pankaj Mishra Occupation Diaries by Raja Shehadeh Injustice by Clive Stafford Smith Longlist Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre El Narco by Ioan Grillo The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston Bloody Nasty People by Daniel Trilling |
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2012
Winner Dead Men Risen by Toby Harnden Shortlist The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb Dark Market: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You by Misha Glenny Hood Rat by Gavin Knight The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell People Who Eat Darkness: the Fate of Lucie Blackman by Richard Lloyd Parry Longlist Afgansty by Rodric Braithwaite Cables from Kabul by Sherard Cowper-Coles The Conservatives: A History by Robin Harris Arguably by Christopher Hitchens Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival by Caroline Moorehead Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and The Saville Inquiry by Douglas Murray Just Boris: The Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity by Sonia Purnell The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World by Lucy Siegle Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex by Christopher Turner Unfair Trade by Conor Woodman |
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2011
Winner The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham Shortlist Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens Death to the Dictator! by Afsaneh Moqadam Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan by DR Thorpe Longlist Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit by Tim Butcher 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal Ernest Gellner by John A Hall A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley We Are a Muslim, Please by Zaiba Malik Why the West Rules for Now by Ian Morris Decline and Fall by Chris Mullin Enough is Enough by Fintan O'Toole Whatever It Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour by Steve Richards Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Living Dolls by Natasha Walter |
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2010
Winner Keeper by Andrea Gillies Shortlist Rebel Land: Among Turkey’s Forgotten Peoples by Christopher de Bellaigue An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty by John Kampfner From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy by Kenan Malik It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower by Michela Wrong Longlist When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett Harare North by Brian Chikwava Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice by Ruth Dudley Edwards Last Chance by David Gardner The Frock-Coated Communist by Tristram Hunt Bluebird: A Memoir by Vesna Maric Ship of Fools by Fintan O'Toole A Swamp Full of Dollars by Michael Peel The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett What Price Liberty? by Ben Wilson |
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2009
Winner Fishing in Utopia: Sweden & The Future That Disappeared by Andrew Brown Shortlist Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War by Owen Matthews Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour by Hsiao-Hung Pai Descent into Chaos: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the threat to global security by Ahmed Rashid The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson Longlist Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq by Patrick Cockburn Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land by Eva Figes The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted by Matthew Green Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel by Hatim Kanaaneh A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond by David Runciman Torture Team: Uncovering war crimes in the land of the free by Philippe Sands The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny by Jeremy Seabrook Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II by AN Wilson |
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2008
Winner Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh Shortlist What’s Left? How The Left Lost Its Way by Nick Cohen Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left by Ed Husain Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons by Clive Stafford Smith Longlist Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900 by Charles Allen The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia by Orlando Figes The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan Age of Austerity 1945-51 by David Kynaston Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1 by Timothy Phillips Friendship and Betrayal: Ambition and the Limits of Loyalty by Graham Stewart |
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2007
Winner Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy Shortlist Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution by Hugh Brogan Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts by Simon Jenkins Lions, Donkeys And Dinosaurs: Waste and Blundering in the Military by Lewis Page Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart |
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2006
Winner Moses, Citizen and Me by Delia Jarrett-Macauley Shortlist Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa by Ekow Eshun Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew by Bernard Hare Frontline: The True Story of the British Mavericks Who Changed the Face of War Reporting by David Loyn The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt by Richard Webster I Didn’t Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong |
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2005
Winner The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class by Michael Collins Shortlist Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism by Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit Wartime: Britain 1939-1945 by Juliet Gardiner Free World by Timothy Garton Ash Just Law by Helena Kennedy My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism by Andrew Marr |
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2004
Winner The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century by Robert Cooper Shortlist Brick Lane by Monica Ali Margaret Thatcher – Volume Two: The Iron Lady by John Campbell Rising ’44: The Battle For Warsaw by Norman Davies Supping with the Devils: Political Journalism from Thatcher to Blair by Hugo Young |
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2003
Winner Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991-2001 by Francis Wheen Shortlist Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland by Neal Ascherson Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940-1945 by Robert Gildea Chance Witness by Matthew Parris London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25 by Iain Sinclair Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000 by Richard Weight |
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2002
Winner Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter Shortlist The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland by Roy Foster |
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2001
Winner Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond by Michael Ignatieff |
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2000
Winner The Case of Stephen Lawrence by Brian Cathcart |
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1999
Winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life by DM Thomas |
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1998
Winner Jennie Lee: A Life by Patricia Hollis |
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1997
Winner Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin |
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1996
Winner Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane |
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1995
Winner In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland by Fionnuala O'Connor |
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1994
Winner The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven |
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