Books & authors

Longlist

2019

The Windrush Betrayal Exposing the Hostile Environment

Amelia Gentleman

Longlist

2019

The Ministry of Truth A Biography of George Orwell's 1984

Dorian Lynskey

Longlist

2019

The Outlaw Ocean Crime and Survival in The Last Untamed Frontier

Ian Urbina

Winner

2018

Chernobyl History of A Tragedy

Serhii Plokhy

Shortlist

2018

Hello World How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

Hannah Fry

Shortlist

2018

The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre

Shortlist

2018

Amateur A True Story About What Makes A Man

Thomas Page McBee

Shortlist

2018

Imperial Twilight The Opium War and The End of China’s Last Golden Age

Stephen R Platt

Shortlist

2018

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity

Carl Zimmer

Winner

2017

How to Survive a Plague

David France

Shortlist

2017

The Islamic Enlightenment The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason

Christopher de Bellaigue

Shortlist

2017

Border A Journey to The Edge of Europe

Kapka Kassabova