Baillie Gifford Prize
The Baillie Gifford Prize, formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize, is the most prestigious non-fiction literature award in the United Kingdom. It is open to authors of any nationality and the winner receives a prize of £30,000.
Shop the nominees below.
Black Spartacus - The Epic Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
$55.00 NZD
Category: BGP 2020 | Reading Level: near fine
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's f ...Show more
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
$36.99 NZD
Category: BGP 2020
From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.On April 10th 2020, it will be exactly 50 years since Paul McCartney announced the break-up of the Beatles. At that point, we will be at the same dista ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Means For Women by Christina Lamb
$52.99 NZD
Category: BGP 2020
'A wake-up call ... These women's stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.' Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has w ...Show more
Stranger in the Shogun's City - A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley
$40.00 NZD
Category: BGP 2020 | Reading Level: near fine
A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a l ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$33.00 NZD
Category: BGP 2020
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
The Idea of the Brain: A History by Matthew Cobb
$69.99 NZD
Category: BGP 2020
We've been trying to make sense of the link between our minds and our bodies since the very dawn of civilisation. Now the pace is hotting up. Join the biologist and historian Matthew Cobb (Life's Greatest Secret) to explore the weird theories, blasphemous experiments and terrifying operating theatres t ...Show more
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