Prix Samuel-Johnson

Le prix est attribué à NeuroTribes de Steve Silberman, un essai sur l'autisme défendant la neurodiversité[1].

Finalistes :

• Jonathan Bate, Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, biographie non autorisée,
• Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks, sur les liens entre langue et paysages,
• Emma Sky, The Unravelling.

Helen Macdonald pour M pour Mabel (H is for Hawk), une description lyrique de la relation entre un humain, un oiseau de proie et le chagrin du deuil

Finalistes:

• John Campbell, Roy Jenkins; A Biography, une biographie de l'homme politique britannique Roy Jenkins
• Marion Coutts, The Iceberg: a Memoir
• Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
• Alison Light, Common People: The History of an English Family
• Caroline Moorehead, Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

Lucy Hughes-Hallett pour The Pike, une biographie de l'écrivain italien Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Finalistes:

• David Crane, Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision led to the Creation of WWI's World Graves
• William Dalrymple, Le Retour d'un roi : La bataille d'Afghanistan
• Dave Goulson, A Sting in the Tale
• Charlotte Higgins, Under Another Sky
• Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography

Wade Davis pour Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

Finalistes:

• Katherine Boo: Annawadi: Vie, mort et espoir dans un bidonville de Mumbai
• Robert Macfarlane: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
• Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
• Paul Preston: The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
• Sue Prideaux: Strindberg: A Life

Frank Dikötter pour La grande famine de Mao[2].

Finalistes:

• Andrew Graham-Dixon: Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane (biographie du Caravage)
• Maya Jasanoff: Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
• Matt Ridley: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
• Jonathan Steinberg: Bismarck: A Life (biographie d'Otto von Bismarck)
• John Stubbs: Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

Philip Hoare pour Leviathan

Finalistes:

• Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of Finance
• Ben Goldacre: Bad Science
• David Grann: The Lost City of Z
• Richard Holmes: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
• Manjit Kumar: Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality

Kate Summerscale pour The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House

Finalistes :

• Tim Butcher: Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
• Mark Cocker: Crow Country
• Orlando Figes: The Whisperers
• Patrick French: The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul
• Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise

Rajiv Chandrasekaran pour Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

Finalistes :

• Ian Buruma: Murder in Amsterdam
• Peter Hennessey: Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties
• Georgina Howell: Daughter of the Desert
• Dominic Streatfeild: Brainwash
• Adrian Tinniswood: The Verneys

James S. Shapiro pour 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Finalistes :

• Alan Bennett Untold Stories
• Jerry Brotton The Sale of the Late King's Goods
• Carmen Callil Bad Faith
• Tony Judt Post War
• Tom Reiss The Orientalist

Jonathan Coe pour Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson

Finalistes :

• Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
• Suketu Mehta Maximum City
• Orhan Pamuk Istanbul
• Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master
• Sarah Wise The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London

Anna Funder pour Stasiland

Finalistes :

• Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
• Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography
• Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Aidan Hartley The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
• Tom Holland Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

T.J. Binyon pour Pushkin

Finalistes :

• Orlando Figes, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
• Aminatta Forna, The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent
• Olivia Judson, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
• Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
• Edgar Vincent, Nelson: Love and Fame

Margaret MacMillan pour Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War

Finalistes :

• Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath
• William Fiennes, author, The Snow Geese
• Richard Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
• Roy Jenkins, Churchill: a Biography
• Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia

Michael Burleigh pour The Third Reich

Finalistes :

• Richard Fortey, Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
• Catherine Merridale, Night of Stone
• Graham Robb, Rimbaud
• Simon Sebag Montefiore, Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin
• Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes

David Cairns pour Berlioz: Volume 2

Finalistes :

• Tony Hawks, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
• Brenda Maddox, Yeats's Ghosts
• Matt Ridley, Genome
• William Shawcross, Deliver Us From Evil
• Francis Wheen, Karl Marx

Antony Beevor pour Stalingrad

Finalistes :

• Ian Kershaw, Hitler
• Ann Wroe, Pilate
• John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
• Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
• David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

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