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2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction
With £30,000 for the winner, the BBC FOUR-sponsored, Samuel Johnson Prize is the richest award
for Non-fiction books in the UK. Entry is open to any work of non-fiction and covers all areas from
current affairs to historical biographies. The 2008 winner is an analysis of a murder that took place nearly
150 years ago and which scandalised Victorian society. The
Suspicions of Mr Whicher is a non-fiction book written in the finest of detective novel traditions.
Last year's winner was written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran who spent 18 months in Baghdad covering the war in Iraq and produced
Imperial
Life in the Emerald City based on his observations of the occupying forces.
Winner - Samuel Johnson Prize 2008
by: Kate Summerscale
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Shortlist - Samuel Johnson Prize 2008
by Patrick French
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Private Life in Stalin's Russia
by Orlando Figes
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Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
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Longlist - Samuel Johnson Prize 2007
Mad, Bad and Sad
A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800
by Lisa Appignanesi
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Great Hatred, Little Room:
Making Peace in Northern Ireland
by Jonathan Powell
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The Brother Gardeners
Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
by Andrea Wulf
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A Life of Picasso
Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
by John Richardson
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Confessions of an Eco Sinner
Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes from
by Fred Pearce
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Cold Cream:
My Early Life and Other Mistakes
by Ferdinand Mount
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Mrs Woolf and the Servants
The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service
by Alison Light
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Finding Moonshine:
A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry
by Marcus Du Sautoy
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Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography
by J.G Ballard
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