Books & authors

Longlist

2012

Feathers

Thor Hanson

Longlist

2012

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Longlist

2012

Inside the Centre The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Ray Monk

Longlist

2012

Grand Pursuit The Story of Economic Genuis

Sylvia Nasar

Longlist

2012

Winter King

Thomas Penn

Longlist

2012

Joseph Anton

Salman Rushdie

Winner

2011

Mao’s Great Famine The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe

Frank Dikötter

Shortlist

2011

Caravaggio A Life Sacred and Profane

Andrew Graham-Dixon

Shortlist

2011

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

Maya Jasanoff

Shortlist

2011

The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves

Matt Ridley

Shortlist

2011

Bismarck A Life

Jonathan Steinberg

Shortlist

2011

Reprobates The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

John Stubbs