Award
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
27 years tracked (1999–2025), 168 entries total.
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language, founded in 1999. Formerly named the Samuel Johnson Prize, it was renamed in 2015 after the investment management firm Baillie Gifford, which is the primary sponsor. The prize covers current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography, and the arts, and is open to authors of any nationality whose work is published in the UK in English.
2025
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries
A Man of Two Faces
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
2024
2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
The Art of Losing
Red Memory
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849
Time to Think
Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
Time's Echo
2022
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
A Fortunate Woman
Legacy of Violence
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
My Fourth Time, We Drowned
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
The Restless Republic
2021
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Things I Have Withheld
2020
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Black Spartacus
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
Stranger in the Shogun's City
The Haunting of Alma Fielding
The Idea of the Brain
The Idea of the Brain: A History
