Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist Announced

For those of you who prefer to read non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson Prize is a welcome break from the rest of the fiction literary prizes. Subjects cover current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.
 

The shortlist will be announced at a yet to be announced date in October and the winner on the 4th November.

The eighteen books longlisted are;

  

-         Small Wars, Far Away Places, Michael Burleigh (Pan Macmillan)

·         Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WW1's War Graves, David Crane (William        Collins)       

·         Return of a King, William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury)

·         A Sting In The Tale, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape)

·         Under Another Sky, Charlotte Higgins (Jonathan Cape)

·         The Memory Palace, Edward Hollis (Portobello Books)           

·         The Pike, Lucy Hughes-Hallett (4^th Estate)           

·         Disraeli, Douglas Hurd & Edward Young (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)    

·         Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, David Kynaston (Bloomsbury)

·         Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart (Thames & Hudson)    

·         The War That Ended Peace, Margaret Macmillan (Profile Books)    

·         Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Charles Moore (Allen Lane)         

·         Time's Anvil, Richard Morris (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

·         Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet, Jesse Norman (William Collins)

·         The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama (The Bodley Head)

·         Far From The Tree, Andrew Solomon (Chatto & Windus)        

·         Everest: The First Ascent, Harriet Tuckey (Rider Books)            

·         Danubia, Simon Winder (Picador)