![]() ![]() ![]() "But there is an answering theme – from Tom Bingham’s Rule of Law which lays out (for all societies) how law not just written down but in practice preserves liberty and order, to Thorpe’s wonderfully humane biography of Macmillan, seamlessly weaving the personal and the affairs of state." From Dunmore’s gripping novel about life in Stalin’s Russia to Oliver Bullough on a previously unknown genocide, the horror of authoritarian power is displayed. "There is a recurrent theme in this year’s books, and it is very Orwellian: fear. ![]() Jane Seaton, director of the prize, said the nominated books complemented one another well: Thorpe's Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan complete the shortlist. Oliver Bullough's Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, Afsaneh Moqadam's Death to the Dictator! and D.R. A longlist of 18 books, revealed last month, was trimmed to a six-strong final shortlist by judges James Naughtie (BBC Radio 4 presenter), Ursula Owen (founder of Virago Press) and a Will Skidelsky (Observer books editor). ![]()
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