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Six authors have been shortlisted for the 67th annual Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for non-fiction.
Up for the £5,000 prize are: Felipe Fernández-Armesto for Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan (Bloomsbury); Vic Gatrell for Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London (Cambridge University Press); and James Hamilton for Constable: a Portrait (Weidenfeld & Nicholson).
Also in the running are Anna Keay for The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown (HarperCollins); Katherine Rundell for Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Faber & Faber), which won the Baillie Gifford Prize; and James Vincent for Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement (Faber & Faber). The winner will be announced on 6th March.
Artemis Cooper, chair of the judges, said: “A good non-fiction book plunges you into its world. However familiar you are with the story, it must feel fresh and exciting, revealing things you didn’t know, illuminating aspects you hadn’t thought of. Every one of the books on our shortlist achieves these things and I know they will be read and enjoyed not just this year, but for decades to come.”
Now administered by New College, Oxford, the first Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize was given in 1956 to Alan Moorehead for his book Gallipoli (Aurum Press) and it has been awarded annually ever since.