25 Years of the Baillie Gifford Prize!
2023 is the year to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the world’s most prestigious and longest running non-fiction book prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize.
Here we've listed the winners of the prize throughout its 25 years running. It's a wide-ranging and eclectic array of books united by one quality: all are exemplary pieces of non-fiction writing, showcasing the research and insight of some of the very best writers out there.
Super-Infinite
Katherine Rundell
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Craig Brown
The Five
Hallie Rubenhold
Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
How to Survive a Plague
David France
East West Street
Philippe Sands
NeuroTribes
Steve Silberman
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
The Pike
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Signed by the author
Into The Silence
Wade Davis
Mao's Great Famine
Frank Dikötter
Nothing To Envy
Barbara Demick
Leviathan
Philip Hoare
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Kate Summerscale
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
James Shapiro
Like a Fiery Elephant
Jonathan Coe
Stasiland
Anna Funder
Pushkin
T. J. Binyon
The Third Reich
Michael Burleigh
Berlioz
David Cairns
