Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Samuel Johnson Prize longlist revealed


18.09.12 | Charlotte Williams - The Bookseller

Fourteen titles have made this year's longlist for the £20,000 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, with three titles each from HarperCollins, Penguin and Random House selected.
The longlist includes Salman Rushdie's memoir, Joseph Anton (Jonathan Cape), as well as books on early attempts to climb Mount Everest, a biography of J Robert Oppenheimer, one of the scientists who developed the atomic bomb, and a history of feathers.
The chair of the judges, Rt Hon David Willetts MP, said: "This has been a bumper year for non-fiction, and as judges we've enjoyed encountering new places and faces as well as enjoying classic stories being told afresh. The longlist reflects the diverse range of high quality non-fiction available for readers to enjoy, and we hope they will inspired to pick up some of these titles and be entertained by the true stories they tell."

The longlist is:

· Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo (Portobello Books)
· One on One, by Craig Brown (Fourth Estate)
· Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis (The Bodley Head)
· The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Masha Gessen (Granta Books)
· Feathers, by Thor Hansen (Basic Books)
· Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (Allen Lane)
· The Old Ways, by Robert MacFarlane (Hamish Hamilton)
· Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape)
· Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genuis, by Sylvia Nasar (Fourth Estate)
· Winter King, by Thomas Penn (Allen Lane)
· The Better Angels of our Nature, by Steven Pinker (Allen Lane)
· The Spanish Holocaust, by Paul Preston (HarperPress)
· Strindberg A Life, by Sue Prideaux (Yale University Press)
· Joseph Anton, by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

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