BOOK AWARDS
The BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2006
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson
The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize is the UK's most important prize for non-fiction. Named in honour of the critic, essayist, lexicographer, poet and biographer Samuel Johnson, the prize is funded by an anonymous British businessman and open to any work of non-fiction published in English in the UK, regardless of the author's nationality.
Set up in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award, Samuel Johnson remains the UK's richest prize for non-fiction with the winner receiving £30,000 and each of the other short-listed authors receiving £1000.
Winner (announced June 2006)
James Shapiro for 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Shortlist (announced May 2006)
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
The Sale of the Late King's Goods by Jerry Brotton
Bad Faith by Carmen Callil
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West by Tom Reiss
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Longlist (announced March 2006)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Untold Stories | Alan Bennett | Faber & Faber | 0571228305 |
| The Sale of the Late King's Goods | Jerry Brotton | Macmillan | 1405041528 |
| Bad Faith | Carmen Callil | Jonathan Cape | 0224078100 |
| The Ongoing Moment | Geoff Dyer | Little, Brown | 0316730254 |
| The Cold War | John Lewis Gaddis | Penguin | 0713999128 |
| Mozart's Women | Jane Glover | Macmillan | 1405021217 |
| The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton | Kathryn Hughes | Fourth Estate | 1841153737 |
| The Sailor in the Wardrobe | Hugo Hamilton | Fourth Estate | 0007192177 |
| Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Tony Judt | William Heinemann | 0434007498 |
| The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000BC- 2000AD | Julia Lovell | Atlantic | 1843542129 |
| Ancient Americans | Charles C Mann | Granta Books | 1862076170 |
| Rosebery | Leo McKinstry | John Murray | 0719558794 |
| Ivan's War | Catherine Merridale | Faber & Faber | 0571218083 |
| Before the Fall-Out | Diana Preston | Doubleday | 0385604386 |
| The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West | Tom Reiss | Chatto & Windus | 0713994118 |
| Baghdad Burning | Marion Boyars | Riverbend | 070117885x |
| 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare | James Shapiro | Faber & Faber | 0571214800 |
| Witnesses of War | Nicholas Stargardt | Jonathan Cape | 0224064797 |
| After the Victorians | AN Wilson | Hutchinson | 0091794846 |
