RSL Jerwood Award Winners

The Royal Society of Literature and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation offer three annual awards, one of £10,000 and two of £5,000, to authors engaged ...more

Winners

	Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch 4.32 avg rating — 5,290 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas 3.87 avg rating — 623 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller 3.89 avg rating — 1,522 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White 4.30 avg rating — 198 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey 4.05 avg rating — 4,561 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations by Thomas Morris (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 470 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman by Minoo Dinshaw 3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World by Laurence Scott 3.48 avg rating — 425 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portobello Road: Lives of a Neighbourhood by Julian Mash 3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth by Tom Burgis 4.05 avg rating — 2,115 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon 4.27 avg rating — 403 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Book About Evil by Gwen Adshead 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai 3.92 avg rating — 2,713 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raptor: A Journey Through Birds by James Macdonald Lockhart 4.07 avg rating — 293 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Society of Timid Souls: or, How To Be Brave by Polly Morland 3.45 avg rating — 168 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell 4.21 avg rating — 1,348 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Englandspiel: The England Game - SOE's Worst Wartime Disaster by Roger Beam 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention by Alexander Monro 3.61 avg rating — 112 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness by Selina Mills 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography by Miles Hollingworth (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson 4.07 avg rating — 1,243 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now All Roads Lead To France by Matthew Hollis 4.06 avg rating — 331 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edgelands by Paul Farley 3.89 avg rating — 448 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt 3.69 avg rating — 431 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War by Daniel Swift 3.56 avg rating — 59 ratings RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston 4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian by Andrew McConnell Stott 4.07 avg rating — 86 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright 4.12 avg rating — 305 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire by Sarah Irving (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives by Carolyn Steel 4.11 avg rating — 479 ratings RSL Jerwood Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars