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Discover the world’s best non-fiction writing. The longlist, shortlist and winning books from the world’s most prestigious and longest running non-fiction book prize.

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Winner

1999

Stalingrad

Antony Beevor

Shortlist

1999

Because Cowards Get Cancer Too

John Diamond

Shortlist

1999

Coleridge Darker Reflections

Richard Holmes

Shortlist

1999

Hitler 1889-1936 Hubris

Ian Kershaw

Shortlist

1999

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

David Landes

Shortlist

1999

Genome The Autobiography of the Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

Shortlist

1999

Pilate The Biography of an Invented Man

Ann Wroe