British Academy Book Prize 2025
Selected by the Bookshop
We always eagerly await the British Academy Book Prize shortlist, which unerringly settles on some of the most mind-expanding recent titles across a range of disciplines and continents. This year is no exception. Every one of these six deeply researched and fascinating books challenges received wisdom and raises the bar for future research on all of their various subjects.
The winner of the £25,000 prize will be announced on Wednesday 22 October.
From the publisher:
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years'Sunil Amrith has given us the most readable global environmental history yet... a towering achievement and a…
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*'A TIMELY AND IMPORTANT BOOK' – ORLANDO FIGES**'SPELLBINDING' – ANDREI KURKOV*For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills – from the Mongol yoke to tsarist…
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEARA revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas,…
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A History of Western Ignorance and African Economics'A historically insightful read' Financial Times'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest‘A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's…
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A powerful call to confront the reasons why global politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic.'A powerful prescription for change' Observer, Book of the Week'An eye-opening contribution to the…
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A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens: the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritageWonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with…
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