Books & authors

Longlist

2009

The House of Wittgenstein A Family at War

Alexander Waugh

Winner

2008

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House

Kate Summerscale

Shortlist

2008

Blood River A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart Tim Butcher

Tim Butcher

Shortlist

2008

Crow Country

Mark Cocker

Shortlist

2008

The Whisperers

Orlando Figes

Shortlist

2008

The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

Patrick French

Shortlist

2008

The Rest is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross

Longlist

2008

Mad, Bad and Sad A History of Women and the Mind Doctors

Lisa Appignanesi

Longlist

2008

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton An Autobiography

J.G. Ballard

Longlist

2008

Nothing to be Frightened Of

Julian Barnes

Longlist

2008

Finding Moonshine A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry

Marcus Du Sautoy

Longlist

2008

Rudolf Nureyev The Life

Julie Kavanagh