Gulag
Anne Applebaum
2004 The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The sixth edition of the prize saw "grand sweep history", "left-of-field travelogues" and "unexpected oddities" making the list of nominated books.
Longlist announced
19 March 2004
Shortlist announced
4 May 2004
Winner & prize ceremony
15 June 2004
What the judges said“An intimate portrait - both touching and funny - of survivors caught between their desire to forget and the need to remember.”
The shortlist
A prestigious shortlist of books are selected each year for the prize.
What the judges said"They seem to me to encapsulate the best in current British non-fiction, but with a strong international flavour too."
The longlist
The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing
On Being John McEnroe
Tim Adams
Capital of the Mind
James Buchan
Margaret Thatcher Vol 2
John Campbell
A Thing in Disguise
Kate Colquhoun
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
David Edmonds
Sowing the Wind
John Keay
High Tide
Mark Lynas
Reformation
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Mountains of the Mind
Robert MacFarlane
Clouds of Glory
Bryan Magee
Our Final Century
Martin Rees
Backroom Boys
Francis Spufford
Orwell
D.J. Taylor
Rivers of Gold
Hugh Thomas
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Lynne Truss
The Journals of a White Sea Wolf
Mariusz Wilk
Meet the judges for 2004
The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year
Michael Wood
Author of In Search of the Dark Ages and The Story of England
Aminatta Forna
2011 winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book
Martha Kearney
Former presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The World at One
Simon Singh
Winner of the 2006 Science Writing Award
Francis Wheen
1997 Columnist of the Year at the What the Papers Say awards