Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners | 25 years – Online
Sat 6 May - Mon 29 May 2023
Recorded at Spring Festival 2023
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the Winner of Winners Award will crown the best work of non-fiction from the last 25 years, recognising the outstanding work of all previous 24 prize-winners. The shortlisted authors are Craig Brown, Wade Davis, Barbara Demick, Patrick Radden Keefe, Margaret MacMillan and James Shapiro.
We are delighted to welcome three of the shortlisted authors.
Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea’s third largest city;
Craig Brown’s One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time is a dynamic, fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four;
and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing and a parable of 20th Century greed
In conversation with Martha Kearney
Shortlisted books:
Craig Brown | One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (4th Estate, HarperCollins) – 2020
Wade Davis | Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (The Bodley Head, Vintage, Penguin Random House UK) – 2012
Barbara Demick | Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea (Granta) – 2010
Patrick Radden Keefe | Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) – 2021
Margaret Macmillan | Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World (formerly Peacemakers: Six Months That Changed The World) (John Murray Press, Hachette) – 2002
James Shapiro | 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (Faber & Faber) – 2006
Shortlisted books:
Craig Brown | One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (4th Estate, HarperCollins) – 2020
Wade Davis | Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (The Bodley Head, Vintage, Penguin Random House UK) – 2012
Barbara Demick | Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea (Granta) – 2010
Patrick Radden Keefe | Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) – 2021
Margaret Macmillan | Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World (formerly Peacemakers: Six Months That Changed The World) (John Murray Press, Hachette) – 2002
James Shapiro | 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (Faber & Faber) – 2006
Venue: Online
Duration: 1hr
Tickets available soon.
Chair biography
Martha Kearney is a journalist and broadcaster. She was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4’s lunchtime news programme The World at One for 11 years, and in April 2018 became a presenter of the early morning Today programme. Kearney is a multi-award-winning presenter with an impressive career at the BBC, including presenting Women’s Hour and Talking Books (interviewing Kazuo Ishiguro and Marlon James amongst others). She has judged the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Booker Prize, amongst others.
