The Orwell Book Prize Winners
The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing. Every year, we award prizes for the work – the book, the journalism and (s...more
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The Rule of Law
by Tom Bingham   4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2011)
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Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's
by Andrea Gillies (Goodreads Author)   3.75 avg rating — 116 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2010)
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Fishing In Utopia
by Andrew Brown 3.47 avg rating — 60 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2009)
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Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
by Raja Shehadeh 3.89 avg rating — 160 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2008)
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Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties
by Peter Hennessy 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2007)
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Moses Citizen and Me
by Delia Jarrett-Macauley 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2006)
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The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class
by Michael Collins 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2005)
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The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century
by Robert Cooper 3.67 avg rating — 57 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2004)
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Hoo Hahs And Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism, 1991 2001
by Francis Wheen 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2003)
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives
by Miranda Carter 3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2002)
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Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
by Michael Ignatieff 3.63 avg rating — 41 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2001)
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The Case Of Stephen Lawrence
by Brian Cathcart 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (2000)
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life
by D.M. Thomas 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (1999)
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Jennie Lee: A Life
by Patricia Hollis 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (1998)
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
by Peter Godwin (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 741 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (1997)
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Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
by Fergal Keane 4.13 avg rating — 189 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (1996)
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In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland
by Fionnuala O'Connor 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
The Orwell Book Prize (1995)
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The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
by Anatol Lieven 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize (1994)
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nominees
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Hitch-22
by Christopher Hitchens 3.93 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2011)
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Death To The Dictator! : A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price
by Afsaneh Moqadam 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2011)
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Let our fame be great: journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus
by Oliver Bullough 4.03 avg rating — 38 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2011)
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Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan
by Richard Thorpe 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2011)
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The Betrayal
by Helen Dunmore 3.79 avg rating — 290 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2011)
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It's Our Turn To Eat
by Michela Wrong 4.21 avg rating — 278 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2010)
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From Fatwa to Jihad
by Kenan 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2010)
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Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security
by John Kampfner 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2010)
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An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
by Petina Gappah 3.71 avg rating — 151 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2010)
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Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town
by Christopher De Bellaigue 3.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2010)
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Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
by Tony Judt 4.18 avg rating — 217 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2009)
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Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid 3.91 avg rating — 583 ratings
The Orwell Book Prize Nominee (2009)
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