Year-End Lists

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: 2020 Award

Winner

• 150 Glimpses of the Beatles
  Craig Brown

Shortlist

• The Idea of the Brain

  A History
  Matthew Cobb
• Black Spartacus

  The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
  Sudhir Hazareesingh
• Our Bodies, Their Battlefield

  What War Does to Women
  Christina Lamb
• Stranger in the Shogun's City

  A Japanese Woman and Her World
  Amy Stanley
• The Haunting of Alma Fielding

  A True Ghost Story
  Kate Summerscale

Longlist

• Labours of Love

  The Crisis of Care
  Madeleine Bunting
• Dear Life

  A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss
  Rachel Clarke
• Eat the Buddha

  Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
  Barbara Demick
• The Lives of Lucian Freud

  Fame, 1968–2011
  William Feaver
• Diary of a Young Naturalist
  Dara McAnulty
• Those Who Forget

  One Family’s Story; A Memoir, a History, a Warning
  Géraldine Schwarz
• Square Haunting

  Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
  Francesca Wade