Year-End Lists

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: 2026 Award

Winner

• Alexander

  God, King, Man
  Edmund Richardson

Shortlist

• Baldwin

  A Love Story
  Nicholas Boggs
• Days of Love and Rage

  A Story of Revolution
  Anand Gopal
• London Falling

  A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Great Dictator

  A Life of Barbara Cartland
  Matthew Sweet
• The Traveller

  The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity
  Andrea Wulf

Longlist

• Stay Alive

  Berlin, 1939–1945
  Ian Buruma
• Murder in Paris ’68

  A True Story of Death and Glamour
  Edward Chisholm
• Ukrainian Lessons

  Art in a Time of War
  Charlotte Higgins
• Redwood

  The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  Ben Macintyre
• The Nord Stream Conspiracy

  The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
  Bojan Pancevski
• Hotel Exile

  Paris in the Shadow of War
  Jane Rogoyska
• Never Say War

  Life Inside Russia
  Åsne Seierstad