Books & authors

Winner

2009

Leviathan, or the Whale

Philip Hoare

Shortlist

2009

Lords of Finance 1929, The Great Depression, and The Bankers Who Broke The World

Liaquat Ahamed

Shortlist

2009

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

Shortlist

2009

The Lost City of Z

David Grann

Shortlist

2009

The Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

Shortlist

2009

Quantum Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality

Manjit Kumar

Longlist

2009

Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate

Longlist

2009

Pompeii The Life of a Roman Town

Mary Beard

Longlist

2009

A Fork in the Road A Memoir

Andre Brink

Longlist

2009

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Alain De Botton

Longlist

2009

Science A Four Thousand Year History

Patricia Fara

Longlist

2009

Darwin's Island The Galapagos in the Garden of England

Steve Jones