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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

The Baillie Gifford Prize aims to reward the best of non-fiction and is open to authors of any nationality. It covers all non-fiction in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.

 

Formerly known as The Samuel Johnson Prize (1999 – 2015) it is the most prestigious non-fiction prize in the UK, worth £50,000 to the winner.

 

The Read Smart podcast is produced by The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. Currently hosted by critic, broadcaster and 2022 Booker Prize judge, Shahidha Bari,  the podcast explores the increasingly popular world of non-fiction books. Expect to hear from prize winning authors, judges and publishing insiders. 

 

Check out all of the Read Smart podcast episodes here:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2rN2nadZVMYe0PBUZpdgdJ

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bailliegiffordprize

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/baillie-gifford-prize/id1458104933

Question 7
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Question 7
A Man of Two Faces: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024
The Story of a Heart: 'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiring' Rob Delaney
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Question 7
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
The Story of a Heart: 'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiring' Rob Delaney
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Mr B.: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The Song of the Cell: The Story of Life
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
Mr B.: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity | Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - The Top Ten Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
The Barefoot Woman
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - The Top Ten Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Original Sins: An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
Dinner with Joseph Johnson - Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Empire of Pain
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Things I Have Withheld
Fall: Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2021
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Somebody I Used to Know
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
Middlemarch
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Exercised
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Lean in 15 - The Shift Plan: 15 Minute Meals and Workouts to Keep You Lean and Healthy
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Honey & Co: At Home: Middle Eastern recipes from our kitchen
Med: A Cookbook
Trejo's Tacos: Recipes and Stories from LA
From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen
Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life
Whiskey in a Teacup
Complete Chinese Cookbook: the only comprehensive, all-encompassing guide to Chinese cookery, fronted by much-loved chef Ken Hom
A Girl Called Jack: 100 delicious budget recipes
Gino’s Italian Family Adventure: All of the Recipes from the New ITV Series
Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy
Lean in 15 - The Shift Plan: 15 Minute Meals and Workouts to Keep You Lean and Healthy
Pinch of Nom Comfort Food: 100 Slimming, Satisfying Recipes
How To Eat: Vintage Classics Anniversary Edition
SIMPLE: effortless food, big flavours
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia