Samuel Johnson Prize

The BBC Four Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction celebrates originality and diversity in contemporary publishing and aims to reward the best of non-fiction, from biography, travel and history to the arts and current affairs.



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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - hardcover
By Kate Summerscale - $28.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.It’s 1860. Saville Kent, age three, is murdered in an outdoor privy. The crime horrifies England. It leads to a national obsession that turns...

 

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone - trade paperback
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provision...

 

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World - trade paperback
By Margaret Macmillan - $23.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.Winner of the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and ...

 

The Third Reich: A New History - trade paperback
By Michael Burleigh - $27.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2001 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.Until now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Germany, despite its being among the most studied phenomena...

 

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 - trade paperback
By Antony Beevor - $23.50 - add to cart

Winner of the 1999 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War: The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom ...