Orwell Prize

The Baltic Revolution : Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven

In Search of a State : Catholics in Northern Ireland by Fionnuala O'Connor

Season of Blood : a Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane

Mukiwa : a White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin

Jennie Lee : a Life by Patricia Hollis

Alexander Solzhenitsyn : a Century in His Life by D. M. Thomas

The Case of Stephen Lawrence by Brian Cathcart

Virtual War by Michael Ignatieff

Anthony Blunt : His Lives by Miranda Carter

WINNER:  Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies : Collected Journalism 1991-2000 by Francis Wheen

SHORTLIST:

• Chance Witness : An Outisder's Life in Politics by Matthew Parris
• London Orbital : a Walk Around the M25 by Iain Sinclair
• Marianne in Chains : in Search of he German Occupation 1940-45 by Robert Gildea
• Patriots : National Identity in Britain 1940-2000 by Richard Weight
• Stone Voices : the Search for Scotland by Neal Ascherson

WINNER:  The Breaking of Nations : Order and Chaos in the Twenty First Century by Robert Cooper

SHORT LIST:

• Brick Lane by Monica Ali

• Margaret Thatcher - Volume Two : The Iron Lady

• Rising '44 : The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies

• Supping with the Devils : Political Journalism from Thatcher to Blair by Hugo Young

WINNER:  The Likes of Us : a Biography of the White Working Class by Michael Collins

SHORT LIST:

• Free World by Timothy Garton Ash

• Just Law by Helena Kennedy

• My Trade : a Short History of British Journalism by Andrew Marr

• Occidentalism : a Short History of Anti-Westernism by Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit

• Wartime : Britain 1939-1945 by Juliet Gardiner

WINNER:  Moses, Citizen and Me by Delia Jarrett-Macauley

SHORT LIST:

• Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare

• The Secret of Bryn Estyn : the Making of a Modern Witch Hunt by Richard Webster

• I Didn't Do It For You : How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong

• Frontline : the True Story of the British Mavericks Who Changed the Face of War Reporting by David Loyn

• Black Gold of the Sun : Searching for Home in England and Africa by Ekow Eshun

WINNER:  Having It So Good : Britain in the 1950s by Peter Hennessy

SHORT LIST:

• Thatcher and Sons : a Revolution in Three Acts by Simon Jenkins

• Occupational Hazards : My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart

• Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs : Waste and Blundering in the Military by Lewis Page

• Bad Faith : a Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil

• Alexis de Tocqueville : Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution by Hugh Brogan

WINNER:  Palestinian Walks : Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

SHORT LIST:

• What's Left? by Nick Cohen

• Wild by Jay Griffiths

• William Wilberforce by William Hague

• The Islamist by Ed Husain

• Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

• Bad Men by Clive Stafford Smith

WINNER:  Fishing in Utopia : Sweden and the Future That Disappeared by Andrew Brown

SHORT LIST:

• Reappraisals : Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt

• Stalin's Children : Three Generations of Love and War by Owen Matthews

• Chinese Whispers : the True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour by Hsiao-Hung Pai

• Descent into Chaos : the United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

• The White War : Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1918 by Mark Thompson

WINNER:  Keeper by Andrea Gillies

SHORT LIST: 

• Rebel Land : Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples by Christopher de Bellaigue

• An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

• Freedom For Sale : How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty by John Kampfner

• From Fatwa to Jihad : the Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy by Kenan Malik

• It's Our Turn to Eat : the Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower by Michela Wrong

WINNER:  The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham

SHORT LIST:

• Death to the Dictator! : Witnessing Iran's Election and the Crippling of the Islamic Republic by Afsaneh Moqadam

• Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens

• Let Our Fame Be Great : Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough

• Supermac : the Life of Harold Macmillan by D. R. Thorpe

• The Betrayal by Helen Dunmmore

WINNER:  The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham

SHORT LIST:

• DarkMarket : CyberThieves, CyberCops and You by Misha Glenny

• Hood Rat by Gavin Knight

• People Who Eat Darkness : the Fate of Lucie Blackman by Richard Lloyd Parry

• The Beautiful and the Damned : Life in the New India by Deb Siddhartha

• The Opium War by Julia Lovell

WINNER:  A Very British Killing : The Death of Baha Mouse by A. T. Williams

SHORT LIST:

• Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan

• From the Ruins of the Empire by Pankaj Mishra

• Injustice by Clive Stafford Smith

• Leaving Alexandria by Richard Holloway

• On the Front Line : the Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin

WINNER:  This Boy : a Memoir of a Childhood

SHORT LIST:

• Coolie Woman by Gaiutra Bahadur

• Not for Turning by Charles Moore

• The British Dream by David Goodhart

• The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikõtter

• the World's Most Dangerous Place by James Fergusson

WINNER:  Private Island : Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek

SHORT LIST:

• Capital : The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupt

• Hack Attack : How the Truth Caught UP with Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies

• In Plain Sight : the Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies

• Modernity Britain : Opening the Box, 1957-1959

• People's Republic of Amnesia : Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim

WINNER:  The Invention of Russia by Arkady Ostrovsky

SHORT LIST:

• Circling the Square by Wendell Steavenson

• Other People's Money by John Kay

• The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke

• The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount

• The Unraveling by Emma Sky

WINNER:  Citizen Clem : a Biography of Attlee by John Bew

SHORT LIST:

• The Seven : the Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards

• All Out War : the Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class by Tim Shipman

• Island Story : Journeys Around Unfamiliar Britain by J. D. Taylor

• And the Sun Shines Now : How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain by Adrian Tempany

• Another Day in the Death of America : a Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge

WINNER:  Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

SHORT LIST:

• The Islamic Enlightenment : the Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason by Christopher de BEllaigue

• Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine

• What You Did Not Tell by Mark Mazower

• Winter by Ali Smith

• Lovers and Strangers : an Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills