Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 longlist announced

The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK.

The longlisted titles are:

• Roy Jenkins (John Campbell, Jonathan Cape)
• The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life (John Carey, Faber)
• God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England (Jessie Childs, Bodley Head)
• The Iceberg: A Memoir (Marion Coutts, Atlantic)
• Hack Attack (Nick Davies, Chatto & Windus)
• Being Mortal (Atul Gawande, Profile Books)
• The Empire of Necessity (Greg Grandin, Oneworld)
• Common People (Alison Light, Fig Tree)
• H is for Hawk (Helen Macdonald, Jonathan Cape)
• Do No Harm (Henry Marsh, Phoenix)
• An Encyclopaedia of Myself (Fourth Estate, Zondervan)
• Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France (Caroline Moorehead, Chatto & Windus)
• The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters (Adam Nicolson, William Collins)
• In These Times (Jenny Uglow, Faber)
• Romany and Tom: A Memoir (Ben Watt, Circus).

A shortlist will be announced on 9 October 2014. The winner of the prize, worth £20,000 (A$35,600), will be announced on 4 November. For more information about the prize, click here.

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