{"id":406326,"date":"2025-09-07T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406326\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:36:11","slug":"garner-longlisted-for-2025-baillie-gifford-nonfiction-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406326\/","title":{"rendered":"Garner longlisted for 2025 Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMonday, 8 September 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the UK, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Australian author Helen Garner (Text) has been longlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth \u00a350,000 (A$103,010).<\/p>\n<p>The 12 titles longlisted for the award are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 (Tom McTague, Picador)<\/li>\n<li>The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief (Richard Holmes, HarperCollins)<\/li>\n<li>Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World (Justin Marozzi, Allen Lane)<\/li>\n<li>Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China\u2019s Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins (Barbara Demick, Text)<\/li>\n<li>Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark (Frances Wilson, Bloomsbury Circus)<\/li>\n<li>The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People\u2019s History of Afghanistan (Lyse Doucet, Hutchinson Heinemann)<\/li>\n<li>How to End a Story: Collected Diaries (Helen Garner, Text)<\/li>\n<li>John &amp; Paul: A Love Story in Songs (Ian Leslie, Faber Nonfiction)<\/li>\n<li>The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940-1945 (Adam LeBor, Apollo)<\/li>\n<li>Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe (Adam Weymouth, Hutchinson Heinemann)<\/li>\n<li>The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (Jason Burke, Bodley Head)<\/li>\n<li>Things in Nature Merely Grow (Yiyun Li, Fourth Estate).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All works of nonfiction by authors of any nationality are eligible for the award, which is the richest prize for nonfiction in the UK. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2024\/11\/20\/262563\/flanagan-wins-20\u2026e-for-nonfiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winner of last year\u2019s prize was <\/a>Richard Flanagan for Question 7 (Knopf), who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2024\/11\/21\/262676\/flanagan-decline\u2026ford-prize-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declined to accept the cash prize<\/a> associated with the award, citing the sponsor\u2019s investment in fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The shortlist will be announced on 2 October 2025, with the winner then announced 4 November.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the longlist is available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk\/year-by-year\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prize website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=awards-news\" class=\"catitem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Awards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 8 September 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing In the UK, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[11410,186,29677,29680,29674,17976,3444,29679,29681,77,29676,704,29678,29675,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-406326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-author-interviews","11":"tag-book-awards","12":"tag-book-news","13":"tag-book-reviews","14":"tag-books","15":"tag-bookseller-jobs","16":"tag-ebooks","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-library-news","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-publishing-jobs","21":"tag-publishing-news","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}