Year-End Lists

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: 2019 Award

Winner

• The Five

  The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
  Hallie Rubenhold

Shortlist

• Furious Hours

  Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  Casey Cep
• On Chapel Sands

  My Mother and Other Missing Persons
  Laura Cumming
• The Lives of Lucian Freud

  Youth, 1922–1968
  William Feaver
• Maoism

  A Global History
  Julia Lovell
• Guest House for Young Widows

  Among the Women of ISIS
  Azadeh Moaveni

Longlist

• I Will Never See the World Again

  The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer
  Ahmet Altan
• The Anarchy

  The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
  William Dalrymple
• Homesick

  Why I Live in a Shed
  Catrina Davies
• The Windrush Betrayal

  Exposing the Hostile Environment
  Amelia Gentleman
• The Ministry of Truth

  A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984
  Dorian Lynskey
• The Outlaw Ocean

  Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
  Ian Urbina