Books & authors

Shortlist

2004

The Zanzibar Chest A Memoir of Love and War

Aidan Hartley

Longlist

2004

On Being John McEnroe

Tim Adams

Longlist

2004

Margaret Thatcher Vol 2 The Iron Lady

John Campbell

Longlist

2004

A Thing in Disguise The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

Kate Colquhoun

Longlist

2004

Bobby Fischer Goes to War How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Match of All Time

David Edmonds

Longlist

2004

Clouds of Glory A Hoxton Childhood

Bryan Magee

Longlist

2004

Backroom Boys The Secret Return of the British Boffin

Francis Spufford

Longlist

2004

Orwell The Life

D.J. Taylor

Winner

2003

Pushkin A Biography

T.J. Binyon

Shortlist

2003

The Devil That Danced On The Water A Daughter’s Memoir

Aminatta Forna

Shortlist

2003

Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self

Claire Tomalin

Longlist

2003

Albion The Origins of the English Imagination

Peter Ackroyd