Winner
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
Kate Summerscale
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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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Shortlist
Blood River A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart Tim Butcher
Tim Butcher
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Crow Country
Mark Cocker
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The Whisperers
Orlando Figes
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The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Patrick French
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The Rest is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century
Alex Ross
Longlist
Mad, Bad and Sad A History of Women and the Mind Doctors
Lisa Appignanesi
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Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton An Autobiography
J.G. Ballard
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Nothing to be Frightened Of
Julian Barnes
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Finding Moonshine A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry
Marcus Du Sautoy
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Rudolf Nureyev The Life
Julie Kavanagh
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Austerity Britain 1945-1951
David Kynaston