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BBC Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist 2010

26/05/2010

The shortlist for the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction was announced today.

Click on the titles to see what the critics made of the contenders:

Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos (Bloomsbury)

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Granta)

Blood Knots by Luke Jennings (Atlantic)

Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Allen Lane)

A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow (Faber)

Catching Fire: How Cooking made us Human by Richard Wrangham (Profile)

The winner of the £20,000 prize will be announced on 1 July.

To read the Omnivore’s review round-ups for the longlisted books, including The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler and On Roads by Joe Moran, click HERE

You can find more information about the prize over at its official website.

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