The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

The UK's premier annual prize for non-fiction books.

Discover the selection of winning titles we have in our collection.

2024		Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
2023		Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
2022		Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (about John Donne) by Katherine Rundell
2021		Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
2020		One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
2019		The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
2018		Chernobyl: History of a catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
2016		East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands
2015		NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman
2014		H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
2012		Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
2011		Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 by Frank Dikötter
2006		1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James S. Shapiro
2004		Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
2001		The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
1999		Stalingrad by Antony Beevor