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The destructive, drug-filled episodes of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards' life take their place alongside a comprehensive study of the genocides in Eastern Europe and biography of Emily Dickinson on this year's Duff Cooper Prize shortlist.
The Duff Cooper Prize, named after the British diplomat and author, was founded in 1956 and has been awarded annually to the best examples of non-fiction writing published in the past year.
The winner receives a first edition copy of Cooper's autobiography, Old Men Forget, and a cheque for £2,500. Last year the prize went to Robert Service for Trotsky: A Biography (Pan).
This year's winner will be announced on 22nd February at a ceremony at the French Embassy in London.
The full shortlist:
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell (Chatto)
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson by Lyndall Gordon (Virago)
What to Look For in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam (Jonathan Cape)
Life by Keith Richards and James Fox (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (Bodley Head)
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (Chatto & Windus)
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination by Alexandra Harris (Thames & Hudson)