2021 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist

October 19, 2021
By Katy Hershberger

The shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction was announced. The £50,000 award will be presented on November 16.

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
by Cal Flyn

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
by Harald Jähner, translated by Shaun Whiteside

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe

Things I Have Withheld
by Kei Miller

Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
by John Preston

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
by Lea Ypi

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