Baillie Gifford prize longlist announced
Summary
The 13-book Baillie Gifford prize longlist includes works by Charlotte Higgins, Patrick Radden Keefe and Ben Macintyre, alongside books covering biography, history, espionage, true crime and international reportage. The shortlist will be announced on 1 October and the winner on 4 November.
Digest
Emma Loffhagen, 02 SEP 2026 — Charlotte Higgins, Patrick Radden Keefe and Ben Macintyre are among the authors selected for this year’s Baillie Gifford prize longlist. Higgins’s Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War examines culture’s role in Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion; Keefe’s London Falling concerns Zac Brettler, a teenager who fell from a luxury London apartment after posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch; and Macintyre’s Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War’s Most Extraordinary Spy follows a KGB double agent cultivated by MI6 in Tehran. The 13 books were selected from submissions published in English in the UK over the past year. Kirsty Lang said the judges held forthright discussions before choosing the list. Other shortlisted authors include Nicholas Boggs, Matthew Sweet, Andrea Wulf, Anand Gopal, Åsne Seierstad, Ian Buruma, Edmund Richardson, Bojan Pancevski, Edward Chisholm and Jane Rogoyska. The prize has been sponsored by Baillie Gifford since 2016. The winner will receive £50,000. Last year’s prize went to Helen Garner.
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