Books & authors

Shortlist

2005

Stuart A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters

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2005

Istanbul Memories of a City

Orhan Pamuk

Shortlist

2005

Matisse the Master

Hilary Spurling

Longlist

2005

Blood & Roses

Helen Castor

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2005

Mary Wollstonecraft

Lyndall Gordon

Longlist

2005

Will in the World

Stephen Greenblatt

Longlist

2005

Leonardo da Vinci The Flights of The Mind

Charles Nicholl

Longlist

2005

In Command of History Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War

David Reynolds

Longlist

2005

Hawkwood

Frances Stonor Saunders

Winner

2004

Stasiland Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Anna Funder

Shortlist

2004

Gulag A History of the Soviet Camps

Anne Applebaum

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2004

John Clare A Biography

Jonathan Bate