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Like a Fiery Elephant The Story of B.S. Johnson
Jonathan Coe
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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.
Showing 1–12 of 19 books
Shortlist
Stuart A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters
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MaximumCity Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta
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Istanbul Memories of a City
Orhan Pamuk
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Matisse the Master
Hilary Spurling
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The Italian Boy Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
Sarah Wise
Longlist
Blood & Roses
Helen Castor
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Lyndall Gordon
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Will in the World
Stephen Greenblatt
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Bury the Chains
Adam Hochschild
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Parallel Worlds
Michio Kaku
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Mutants On the Form, Variety and Errors of the Human
Armand Leroi