2012
The winner was Wade Davis for Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
The longlist was announced 17 September, 2012, the shortlist was announced October 5. The winner was announced November 12. The monetary prize for 2012 was £20,000 for the winner.
- Shortlist
- Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
- Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
- Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
- Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
- Sue Prideaux, Strindberg: A Life
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