Baillie Gifford Prize longlist 2016

The £30,000 Baillie Gifford prize (formerly known as the Samuel Johnson prize) is the UK’s most prestigious award for nonfiction writing. This year’s longlist has been announced and Chair of Judges, Stephanie Flanders, says that each of these 10 titles ‘takes you on a journey that is as engrossing and imaginative as any novel’.

Here is the longlist in full:

The shortlist will be announced on Monday 17 October, and the winner will be announced on Tuesday 15 November. Find out more about the Baillie Gifford prize here.

Cover image for Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich

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