The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winners

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 ...more

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Super-Infinite: The Transfo...

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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2022)
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Empire of Pain: The Secret ...

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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2021)
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One Two Three Four: The Bea...

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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2020)
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The Five: The Untold Lives ...

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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2019)
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Chernobyl: The History of a...

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4.23 avg rating — 8,765 ratings
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2018)
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How to Survive a Plague: Th...

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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2017)
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East West Street: On the Or...

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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2016)
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Kingdom of Characters: The ...

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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2022)
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The Barefoot Woman

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A Fortunate Woman: A Countr...

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The Restless Republic: Brit...

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Original Sins: An extraordi...

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My Fourth Time, We Drowned:...

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Dinner with Joseph Johnson:...

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Otherlands: A Journey Throu...

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The Escape Artist: The Man ...

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Invisible Child: Poverty, S...

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Legacy of Violence: A Histo...

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Free: A Child and a Country...

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Fall: The Mystery of Robert...

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Things I Have Withheld

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Aftermath: Life in the Fall...

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Islands of Abandonment

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The Lives of Lucian Freud: ...

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The Haunting of Alma Fieldi...

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Those Who Forget: My Family...

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Black Spartacus: The Epic L...

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The Idea of the Brain: The ...

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Dear Life: A Doctor's Story...

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Labours of Love: The Crisis...

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