Baillie Gifford Prize Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Baillie Gifford Prize

Hear Craig Brown, author of One, Two, Three, Four, discuss how he feels ahead of the #BGPrize25 winner announcement next Thursday #reading #bookrecommendations #TheBeatles https://t.co/veEnxrYYRe

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#BGPrize winner James Shapiro @hayfestival ‘I’m a @TheBookerPrizes judge this year, and like Shakespeare in 1599, today’s writers are reacting to the tectonic shifts that are happening in our times.’ https://t.co/loltLF4ryU

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Our next longlisted author interview is from @andreafelliott, who delves into the incredibly important backstory behind Invisible Child: https://t.co/8y9hbstxCf #longlist #nonfiction https://t.co/mqBiA5knqy

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Hear from Hatchards bookseller, Bea, on what she liked the most about Wade Davis’ “multifaceted” book, Into The Silence #reading #bookrecommendations #literature @HatchardsChelt https://t.co/6UVMa4QRl4

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Author @Tracy_Chevalier tells us what she found so interesting about Rudolf Vrba’s story, as told in @Freedland’s #BGPrize2022 shortlisted book ‘The Escape Artist’. Read more about the book here: https://t.co/K0tJGWUFXD @johnmurrays https://t.co/6IoaI6n8L9

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A huge congratulations to #BGPrize2021 shortlisted author John Preston, whose fascinating insight into the life of Robert Maxwell ‘Fall,’ has won the Best Biography award at the @CostaBookAwards! #JohnPreston #Fall https://t.co/4B1NfoJPQu

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Learn more about Polly Morland's ‘A Fortunate Woman’, from the importance of the doctor/patient relationship to how Morland reinterpreted John Berger’s medical classic A Fortunate Man: https://t.co/zmMhcfuWNW #nonfiction #BGPrize2022 https://t.co/tGTwAaJ7wX

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Hear @BarbaraDemick, author of Nothing to Envy, speak about how she feels in the week approaching the #BGPrize25 winner announcement #bookrecommendations #reading #NothingToEnvy https://t.co/QsPix6IDe0

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Congratulations to Casey Cep @cncep who has made the #BGPrize2019 longlist with her book Furious Hours @williamheineman. Well done to Casey and her team. Cep’s book explores themes of courtroom drama, murder and fraud. #nonfiction #books #literature #FuriousHours #CaseyCep https://t.co/9budugAF4P

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“He understood things about us that transcend the moment of history”. #BGPrize2022 winner Katherine Rundell explains why John Donne's poems still resonate today. Tune in to this year’s final Read Smart podcast with @raziaiqbal and Katherine Rundell: https://t.co/5CS96DQYWt https://t.co/o8VdReeBCQ