Books & authors

Shortlist

2012

The Old Ways

Robert MacFarlane

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2012

The Spanish Holocaust

Paul Preston

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2012

Strindberg A Life

Sue Prideaux

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2011

Caravaggio A Life Sacred and Profane

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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2011

Liberty's Exiles The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire

Maya Jasanoff

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2011

The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves

Matt Ridley

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2011

Bismarck A Life

Jonathan Steinberg

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2011

Reprobates The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

John Stubbs

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2010

Alex’s Adventures in Numberland

Alex Bellos

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2010

Blood Knots

Luke Jennings

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2010

Too Big to Fail Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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2010

A Gambling Man

Jenny Uglow