The 2024 Non-Fiction Shortlist
CATEGORY WINNER
Thunderclap: a memoir of art and life & sudden death
Laura Cumming
A kaleidoscopic memoir connecting Laura Cumming’s life as an art critic with the vivid world of her father’s paintings and those of the Dutch Golden Age.
Doppelganger: A trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein
Braiding together elements of tragicomic memoir, chilling political reportage, and piercing cultural analysis, Klein dives deep into what she calls the Mirror World – our destabilised present, rife with doubles and confusion.
A Thread of Violence
Mark O’Connell
What does it mean to write about a killer? A tale of a notorious double-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himself entangled in this strange, true story.
