Baillie Gifford Prize longlist mixes espionage, true crime and war reporting
Thirteen nonfiction titles are in contention for the UK's leading nonfiction prize, including new books from Patrick Radden Keefe, Ben Macintyre and the Guardian's Charlotte Higgins.
The longlist for this year's Baillie Gifford prize has been announced, according to the Guardian, drawing together thirteen works of nonfiction on subjects ranging from espionage to true crime to war.
Among those named is Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian's chief culture writer, for Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War, which looks at the role of culture in Ukraine's resistance to the Russian invasion, drawn from her reporting trips there. Patrick Radden Keefe, the American investigative journalist who won the prize in 2021 for Empire of Pain, returns to the longlist with London Falling, about Zac Brettler, a teenager who died falling from a luxury London apartment after posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch.
Also longlisted is the historian Ben Macintyre for Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy, which recounts the story of a KGB double agent cultivated by MI6 in revolutionary Tehran.
The Guardian's report does not list the remaining ten titles on the longlist.
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