Baillie Gifford Prize winners

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

John Vaillant

A gripping account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between humanity and fire's fierce energy.

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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Katherine Rundell

From a standout scholar, a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.

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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their involvement in the opioid crisis.

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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

From the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

The victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told.

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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Serhii Plokhy

A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian.

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East West Street

Philippe Sands, QC

A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family history.

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H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick

Helen Macdonald

H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald’s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming.

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Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

Frank Dikoetter

An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China’s Great Famine.

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Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea

Barbara Demick

What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs?

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