BOOK AWARDS
The BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2007
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 2007)
Rajiv Chandrasekaran for Imperial Life in the Emerald City published by Bloomsbury, ISBN 9780747591689
Shortlist (announced May 2007)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Murder in Amsterdam | Ian Buruma | Atlantic Books | 9781843543190 |
| Imperial Life in the Emerald City | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Bloomsbury | 9780747591689 |
| Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties | Peter Hennessey | Allen Lane | 9780713995718 |
| Daughter of the Desert | Georgina Howell | Pan Macmillan | 9781405045872 |
| Brainwash | Dominic Streatfeild | Hodder & Stoughton | 9780340921036 |
| The Verneys | Adrian Tinniswood | Jonathan Cape | 9780224072557 |
Longlist (announced March 2007)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Murder in Amsterdam | Ian Buruma | Atlantic Books | 9781843543190 |
| Imperial Life in the Emerald City | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Bloomsbury | 9780747591689 |
| The Last Mughal | William Dalrymple | Bloomsbury | 9780747586395 |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | Bantam | 9780593055489 |
| Iran Awakening | Shirin Ebadi | Rider | 9781846040319 |
| Irish Freedom | Richard English | Pan Macmillan | 9781405041898 |
| City of Laughter | Vic Gatrell | Atlantic Books | 9781843543213 |
| Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties | Peter Hennessey | Allen Lane | 9780713995718 |
| Daughter of the Desert | Georgina Howell | Pan Macmillan | 9781405045872 |
| Edith Wharton | Hermione Lee | Chatto & Windus | 9780701166656 |
| The Man Who Went into the West | Byron Rogers | Aurum Press | 9781845131463 |
| Stuff | Martin Rowson | Jonathan Cape | 9780224079235 |
| Fatal Purity | Ruth Scurr | Chatto & Windus | 9780701176006 |
| Occupational Hazards | Rory Stewart | Picador | 9780330440493 |
| Brainwash | Dominic Streatfeild | Hodder & Stoughton | 9780340921036 |
| Nabeel's Song | Jo Tatchell | Sceptre | 9780340897034 |
| Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man | Claire Tomalin | Penguin | 9780670915125 |
| The Verneys | Adrian Tinniswood | Jonathan Cape | 9780224072557 |
| Clever Girl: A Sentimental Education | Brian Thompson | Atlantic Books | 9781843545446 |
| Nature's Engraver | Jenny Uglow | Faber & Faber | 9780571223749 |
