Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 Longlist Reviews
The longlist for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction was announced today. Click on the covers to see what the critics made of the contenders. You can find the full list below.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane
Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar
The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston
Strindberg A Life by Sue Prideaux
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
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