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Longlist for Samuel Johnson Prize, the leading UK non-fiction awards, announced
Sep 19 2012
The longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2012 has been announced today, Tuesday 18 September, the birthday of Samuel Johnson. The 14 titles on this year’s longlist take readers around the world to countries including India, Russia and Spain, and span subjects as diverse as economics, feathers and nuclear power. The Samuel Johnson Prize is the UK’s leading non-fiction prize.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo (Portobello Books)
One on One, by Craig Brown (Fourth Estate)
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis (The Bodley Head)
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Masha Gessen (Granta Books)
Feathers, by Thor Hansen (Basic Books)
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (Allen Lane)
The Old Ways, by Robert MacFarlane (Hamish Hamilton) Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape)
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genuis, by Sylvia Nasar (Fourth Estate)
Winter King, by Thomas Penn (Allen Lane)
The Better Angels of our Nature, by Steven Pinker (Allen Lane)
The Spanish Holocaust, by Paul Preston (HarperPress)
Strindberg A Life, by Sue Prideaux (Yale University Press)
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