Winner
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
Kate Summerscale
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Discover the world’s best non-fiction writing. The longlist, shortlist and winning books from the world’s most prestigious and longest running non-fiction book prize.
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Shortlist
The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Patrick French
Longlist
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton An Autobiography
J.G. Ballard
Longlist
Nothing to be Frightened Of
Julian Barnes
Longlist
Rudolf Nureyev The Life
Julie Kavanagh
Longlist
Mrs Woolf and the Servants The Hidden Heart of Domestic Servants
Alison Light
Longlist
Cold Cream My Early Life and Other Mistakes
Ferdinand Mount
Longlist
Watching the Door Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast
Kevin Myers
Longlist
A Life of Picasso Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 vol 3
John Richardson
Longlist
The Brother Gardeners Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Andrea Wulf
Shortlist
Daughter of the Desert
Georgina Howell
Shortlist
The Verneys
Adrian Tinniswood