Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 — literary and historical lives dominate the shortlist

Financial Times30 September 2026, 23:01 UTCUnited Kingdom

Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘London Falling’ and Anand Gopal’s ‘Days of Love and Rage’ are joined by four works of biography, from Alexander the Great to James Baldwin

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