2011
The winner was Frank Dikötter for Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962.
The shortlist was announced 14 June 2011. The monetary prize for 2011 was £20,000 for the winner.
Shortlist
- Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane (bio of Caravaggio)
- Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
- Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
- Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life (biography of Otto von Bismarck)
- John Stubbs, Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
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