PAST WINNERS


2025 Patriot Bodley Head/Navalny


2024 Politics on the Edge Jonathan Cape/Stewart


2023


Super-Infinite Faber/Rundell


2022


Empireland Viking/Sanghera


2021 Diary of a Young Naturalist Little Toller/McAnulty


BOOK OF THE YEAR Non-Fiction Narrative


Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir Nobody’s Girl, written with Amy Wallace, was a standout in this category. The judges called it a “courageous”, “completely devastating” and “essential” read, and a memoir of “totemic power”. Nobody’s Girl “will stay in my bones”, one judge said. Another predicted that it would “change the world”. The panel were also in awe of Doubleday’s “agile” publishing, which kept Giuffre


at the forefront of the narrative. One judge called the book’s cover “definitive”, with the half-blurred photograph of Giuffre symbolising the way “she comes into focus as you read the book”. Doubleday worked with selected and trusted media partners when promoting the book, ensuring Giuffre’s voice remained at the centre, even with the revelations that threatened to drown out her story. Their poignant marketing campaign focused on the message: #BelieveHer: “Now, we stand up for her.” The panel declared Nobody’s Girl a “titanic” achievement.


THE SHORTLIST


A Mind of My Own KATHY BURKE


Careless People SARAH WYNN-WILLIAMS


Entitled ANDREW LOWNIE


Last Rites OZZY OSBOURNE


Mother Mary Comes to Me ARUNDHATI ROY


Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Amy Wallace (co-writer) DOUBLEDAY


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