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BOOK AWARDS

The BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson

 

Winner (announced late June)

PeacemakersThe winner has been announced as:

Peacemakers by Margaret Macmillan

 

 

 

 

Shortlist (announced mid June)

Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter

The Voices of Morebath by Eamon Duffy

The Snow Geese by William Fiennes

The Invention of Clouds by Richard Hamblyn

Churchhill by Roy Jenkins

Peacemakers by Margaret Macmillan

Unfinest Hour by Brendan Simms

 

Longlist (announced late May)

Title Author Publisher ISBN
Old Man Goya Julia Blackburn Cape 0224062794
Anthony Blunt: His Lives Miranda Carter Macmillan 0333633504
Captain Cook Vanessa Collingridge Ebury Press 0091879132
The Voices of Morebath Eamon Duffy Yale 0300091850
The Snow Geese William Fiennes Picador 0330375784
Ninety Degrees North Fergus Fleming Granta 1862074496
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller Picador 0330490230
The Invention of Clouds Richard Hamblyn Picador 0330391941
The Scottish Enlightenment Arthur Herman Fourth Estate 1841152757
Redcoat Richard Holmes HarperCollins 0002570971
Churchill Roy Jenkins Macmillan 0333782909
Emergence Steven Johnson Allen Lane 0713994002
Peacemakers Margaret Macmillan John Murray 0719559391
Paris Between Empires 1814-1852 Philip Mansel John Murray 0719556279
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere Jan Morris Faber and Faber 0571204430
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes Jonathan Rose Yale 0300088868
Islam's Black Slaves Ronald Segal Atlantic Books 1903809800
Painted Shadow Carole Seymour-Jones Constable 0094792704
Unfinest Hour Brendan Simms Allen Lane 0713994258
The Common Thread John Sulston and Georgina Ferry Bantam Press 0593048016
God: A Guide for the Perplexed Keith Ward Oneworld 1851682848

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