The Baillie Gifford longlist – consisting of contenders for the country’s most prestigious nonfiction prize – is out today. A very good list it is, too. For readers’ ease, I’m affixing some links here to the Spectator’s reviews of the longlisted titles.
We missed Souad Mekhennet (sorry); and a couple of them – Applebaum, Schama and Uglow – are forthcoming so will be reviewed in the next few weeks. Expect a review of Allan Jenkins’s allotment memoir when we consider gardening books at Christmas.
· Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Anne Applebaum (Allen Lane)
· The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason, Christopher de Bellaigue (The Bodley Head)
· Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge (Bloomsbury Circus)
· How to Survive A Plague, David France (Picador)
· Plot 29, Allan Jenkins (4th Estate)
· Border:
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