We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s prize is Matthew Cobb, author of Crick: A Mind in Motion, all about the essential role Francis Crick played – alongside his scientific partner James Watson – in the discovery of DNA.
Congratulations also to the shortlisted runners up:
- Sarah Wynn-Williams with Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, the scandalous memoir of her time working at Facebook;
- Thant Myint-U with Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s, about Myint-U’s grandfather and the often overlooked role he played in world diplomacy;
- Adam Hart with Operation Pimento, relating the thrilling tale of his great-grandfather Frank Griffiths’s wartime exploits in the SOE;
- and Ian Leslie with John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, about the creative relationship of the Beatles’s lead songwriters.