2002 - Longlist

SIX OUTSTANDING BOOKS COMPETE FOR £30,000 PRIZE

The judges for the UK’s most valuable prize for non-fiction today announce the shortlist for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The prize is worth £30,000 to the winner and £1000 to each of the 6 shortlisted authors.

The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, now in its fourth year, celebrates the variety and originality of non-fiction published today - from biography to travel writing, from popular science to the arts and current affairs.  The 2002 shortlist represents non-fiction at its best; to quote David Dimbleby, Chair of the judges, ‘writing that is both thought provoking and enticingly well written.’

The 2002 shortlist comprises:
you can click on the book title to read a sysnopsis of the book

Author	Title	Publisher
Eamon Duffy	The Voices of Morebath	Yale
William Fiennes	The Snow Geese	Picador
Richard Hamblyn	The Invention of Clouds	Picador
Roy Jenkins	Churchill	Macmillan
Margaret Macmillan	Peacemakers	John Murray
Brendan Simms	Unfinest Hour	Allen Lane

The judges: David Dimbleby (Chair); scientist Richard Fortey; literary editor of the Sunday Times Caroline Gascoigne; writer and broadcaster Bonnie Greer; and best selling novelist and journalist Robert Harris will meet on Monday 24 June to choose the winner. The presentation will take place at a dinner at One Great George Street, London that evening and will be broadcast live on BBC Four from 9.00pm.