2004
The winner was Anna Funder for Stasiland: Oh Wasn't it so Terrible - True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Shortlist
- Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
- Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography (about John Clare)
- Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Aidan Hartley, The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
- Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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