| 2011 |
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Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter |
| 2010 |
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Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick |
| 2009 |
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Leviathan, or the Whale by Philip Hoare |
| 2008 |
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury) |
| 2007 |
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury) |
| 2006 |
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1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro (Faber & Faber) |
| 2005 |
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Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe (Picador) |
| 2004 |
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Stasiland by Anna Funder (Granta) |
| 2003 |
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Pushkin: A biography by T.J. Binyon (HarperCollins) |
| 2002 |
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Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 by Margaret Macmillan (John Murray) |
| 2001 |
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The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh (Macmillan) |
| 2000 |
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Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness by David Cairns (The Penguin Press) |
| 1999 |
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Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (Penguin) |
