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Shortlist for 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize announced
The shortlist for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the UK’s leading non-fiction prize, has been announced today, Friday 5 October.The six titles on this year’s shortlist take readers high...
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Q&A with Stephen Pinker
How does it feel to reach the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize?Exhilarating. Though several American pundits predicted that Better Angels would be a shoo-in for our major book prizes, so far it...
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Q&A with Robert MacFarlane
How does it feel to reach the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize?Very surprising and very pleasing. The Samuel Johnson Prize feels like the non-fiction Man Booker; making the shortlist feels like...
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Q&A with Wade Davis
How does it feel to reach the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize?Naturally one feels honoured and deeply moved. It is especially gratifying to have this book, which took twelve years to research...
View ArticleSamuel Johnson Prize - BBC coverage
The BBC is the media partner for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and over the next fortnight you will have the chance to tune in to BBC programmes to find out more about this year’s shortlisted books and...
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Q&A with Paul Preston
How does it feel to reach the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize? It came as an enormous surprise and left me with a feeling of intense puzzlement.What research did you do for writing your book? At...
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Q&A with Katherine Boo
How does it feel to reach the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize? I felt honored, obviously, and also surprised, since this is my first book and my magazine work for the New Yorker isn’t much known...
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Tale of Everest and adventure, war and risk wins 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize...
National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence wins UK’s leading non-fiction prize Winner Wade Davis tells story of fellow explorer George Mallory 90 years after the first British attempt to...
View ArticleSamuel Johnson Prize Roundup
With the dust settled on another fantastic Samuel Johnson Prize year here is a quick roundup of what the six shortlisted authors have been doing since the winner announcement. Self-proclaimed...
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Fans of Kate Summerscale’s Mr Whicher will be pleased to hear the private investigator will be returning to screens later this year in a follow-up to ITV’s 2011 film drama. Paddy Considine, who plays...
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2013 Judges announcement
Lord (Martin) Rees, Astronomer Royal, to chair “dream team” of judges for The 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in its 15th anniversary yearMartin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, is to chair the...
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The Judges
Martin Rees Martin Rees (Chair), Lord Rees of Ludlow, is Astronomer Royal, and was until recently Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was President of the Royal Society for the period 2005-10....
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Review the Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted books!
We’re working with The Reading Agency to give away a copy of each of the shortlisted titles to six willing reviewers, whose reviews will go up on The Reading Agency’s reading groups website – Reading...
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Shortlisted authors to speak at Southbank Centre event
Our six shortlisted authors, David Crane, William Dalrymple, Dave Goulson, Charlotte Higgins, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Charles Moore, will be speaking at the Southbank Centre in a special event on the...
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Shortlisted author David Crane on non-fiction books as holiday reading
Noto, South-East Sicily. For anyone writing non-fiction it’s always interesting, in a demoralising sort of way, to see what friends take on holiday to read. There is an immensely rich literature about...
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