Submissions for the Baillie Gifford Prize, 2018, are now closed. The winner will be revealed at a ceremony in London on Wednesday 14 November.

The Baillie Gifford Prize aims to reward the best of non-fiction and is open to authors of any nationality. It covers all non-fiction in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.

Formerly known as The Samuel Johnson Prize (1999 – 2015) it is the most prestigious non-fiction prize in the UK, worth £30,000 to the winner.

The six titles on this year’s shortlist are:

• Hello World: How to be Human in The Age of The Machine, Hannah Fry (Doubleday)
• The Spy and the Traitor, Ben Macintyre (Viking)
• Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man, Thomas Page McBee (Canongate Books)
• Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age, Stephen R Platt (Atlantic)
• Chernobyl: History of A Tragedy, Serhii Plokhy (Allen Lane)
• She Has Her Mother’s Laugh:  The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity, Carl Zimmer (Picador)

Read more here.