Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist 2024
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The Women’s Prize has launched a non-fiction counterpart to their long-running Prize for Fiction. The inaugural year’s sixteen-strong longlist runs the gamut of narrative non-fiction, from history and politics, via science and technology, to biography, art and travel writing.
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'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah DawsonThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche.From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest…
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'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events' NAOMI KLEIN'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy' YANIS VAROUFAKISEverything you…
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ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BIGGEST BOOKS OF AUTUMN 2023'Funny and very important' Chris van Tulleken, bestseling author of Ultra-Processed People'Educates and emboldens' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry'Should…
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What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker’s mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and…
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'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'The story of South Asia told with verve, wit and brilliance' ANURADHA ROYBased on decades of scholarship, this is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th centuryShadows at…
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From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of…
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ BEST BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF THE ECONOMIST‘S BEST BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF THE NEW YORKER‘S BEST BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023TIME MAGAZINE’S #1…
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.' Claire Tomalin'Furious and fascinating' The Times'A marvellous book' Tom HanksA BLAZING, GENRE-BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE…
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A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and bodyDuring pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social…
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*A gripping ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine*What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and…
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Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain'Expansive, arresting, with sly humour... Masud…
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A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a deeply layered and insightful testament to people who are left out of the archivesLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD…
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024'Code Dependent is the intimate investigation of AI that we’ve been waiting for, and it arrives not a moment too soon.' – Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of…
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'Enthralling and exuberant ... Here is a wonder-book for word-lovers' Jeanette Winterson'Utterly fascinating, entertaining, astonishing and as clever as a box of monkeys ... I completely love it' Joanna LumleyWhat do three…
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORYThe boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots – three…
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Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES‘I adored this book … Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK‘A…
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