The Baillie Gifford Prize Winner Event

November 24, 2020

Today at 6pm (GMT) The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction will be streaming the winner announcement on YouTube and Facebook. Join in for a virtual celebration hosted by Sir Peter Bazalgette. The official winner announcement will be made by chair of judges Martha Kearney. Read more about this exciting event here: https://bit.ly/2JUyLYg

Click ‘going’ on the Facebook event here to stay up to date. The winner will receive £50,000 and each of the shortlisted authors will receive £1,000.

This year’s shortlist includes:

• One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
• The Idea of the Brain: A History by Matthew Cobb
• Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
• Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
• Stranger in a Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in Ninteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
• The Haunting on Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale

Find out more about the rest of the shortlist here.