Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist 2009

This shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009 has just been announced. Last year's winner was local author Kate Summerscale with The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House.

The six titles in the running for this year's prize are as follows: Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed, Bad Science by Ben Goldacre The Lost City of Z by David Grann Leviathan by Philip Hoare The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar, all of which we have in stock.