The 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist
Selected by the Bookshop
The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in Non-Fiction written by women.
The Six books on the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist are united by the power of hope and the necessity of resistance to initiate change. In different ways, this shortlist exemplifies the irrepressible spirit of humanity and nature, and the capacity of both to reinvent in the face of adversity.
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A deeply personal and powerful memoir from beloved music icon Neneh CherryA GUARDIAN MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024A BBC CULTURE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024'Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved…
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The Story of a Heart is an extraordinary, compelling account of life-giving medicine. Rachel Clarke follows the journey of a human heart - and narrates one of the most miraculous developments in 20th century medicine - as she describes…
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The magical true story of a woman and an injured hare who taught her how to live again - the perfect Christmas gift for 2024Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around…
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The first book to tell the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, a WW2 Polish resistance fighter who was secretly trained by the special forces in the British countryside and then became the only woman to be parachuted back behind enemy…
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An impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world's ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it.No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful…
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A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women, each striving for a better future in an unequal society.A Financial Times, New York Times and Times/Sunday Times Book…
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