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In the UK, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Australian author Helen Garner (Text) has been longlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$103,010).
The 12 titles longlisted for the award are:
Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 (Tom McTague, Picador)
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief (Richard Holmes, HarperCollins)
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World (Justin Marozzi, Allen Lane)
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China’s Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins (Barbara Demick, Text)
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark (Frances Wilson, Bloomsbury Circus)
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan (Lyse Doucet, Hutchinson Heinemann)
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries (Helen Garner, Text)
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs (Ian Leslie, Faber Nonfiction)
The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940-1945 (Adam LeBor, Apollo)
Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe (Adam Weymouth, Hutchinson Heinemann)
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (Jason Burke, Bodley Head)
Things in Nature Merely Grow (Yiyun Li, Fourth Estate).
All works of nonfiction by authors of any nationality are eligible for the award, which is the richest prize for nonfiction in the UK. The winner of last year’s prize was Richard Flanagan for Question 7 (Knopf), who declined to accept the cash prize associated with the award, citing the sponsor’s investment in fossil fuels.
The shortlist will be announced on 2 October 2025, with the winner then announced 4 November.
More information about the longlist is available from the prize website.
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