Calling all UK publishers of great non-fiction 📚. Tell our judges about the best books you're bringing out this year. Nominations for the 70th #duffcooperprize 🎉 now open until 1 June 2025. Details here: duffcooperprize.org/about/how-to...
Duff Cooper Prize
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A £5,000 annual prize for non-fiction, celebrating imaginative insight, compelling narrative, scholarship & good writing since 1956. Next awarded 2 March 26.
“‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light” Sue Prideaux discusses her Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize-winning biography Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin in today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light
He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist...
theguardian.com
With us in the Cotswolds in May Sue Prideaux winner 2025 @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social Buy book @borzoibookshop.bsky.social Book talk online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Both Sue Prideaux WILD THING winner @duffcooperprize.bsky.social and (see @fivebooks.com below) Minoo Dinshaw prize judge & author of FRIENDS IN YOUTH #history The English Civil War will be with us in May Book tickets on line www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations@fivebooks.com · 2y agoNEWS: Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux, a biography of French painter Paul Gauguin, wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Here's our interview with prize judge Minoo Dinshaw about this year's fab shortlist:
‘He’s showing the two realities simultaneously, the mental reality and the physical reality and that’s just extraordinary.’ Listen to The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 winner Sue Prideaux interviewed by judge David Horspool on the @thetls.bsky.social podcast. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
The TLS Podcast: March 7, 2025
Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
the-tls.co.uk
NEWS: Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux, a biography of French painter Paul Gauguin, wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Here's our interview with prize judge Minoo Dinshaw about this year's fab shortlist:
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize
It's a nonfiction book prize that values "style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality," says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year's…
fivebooks.com
Today's top story: Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (Faber) has won the Duff Cooper Prize buff.ly/lu5Ibfi (£)
Many congratulations to Sue Prideaux for winning the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for her biography of Paul Gauguin. And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
Congratulations to Sue Prideaux winner of The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social. 🍾
Which was the best nonfiction/history book of 2024? The judges of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize (@duffcooperprize.bsky.social) will announce their winner tonight:
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize
It's a nonfiction book prize that values "style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality," says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year's…
fivebooks.com
We’ve spent six weeks celebrating the best non-fiction books from the past year. On Monday night we will toast them all and learn the winner of The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025. (@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social) duffcooperprize.org
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’ve profiled a shortlisted book. In our final week, discover Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor (The Bodley Head) @vintagebooks.bsky.social 🧵
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a shortlisted book. This week we dive into Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (@faberbooks.bsky.social). 🧵 @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
Shortlisted for the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social A book of the year in @thetls.bsky.social, @economist.com & @bloomberg.com Described as “marvellous” @theguardian.com, “beautifully written” @historyextra.bsky.social & “everything that popular history should be” (Lit Rev) … And now in paperback!
NEW: "We want style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality" Minoo Dinshaw, one of the judges, on this year's Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize shortlist:
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize
It's a nonfiction book prize that values "style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality," says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year's…
fivebooks.com
Congratulations @faberbooks.bsky.social WILD THING by Sue Prideaux shortlisted for 2025 @duffcooperprize.bsky.social We are so looking forward to Sue's event with us in May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re raising a glass to THE SCAPEGOAT: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (@4thestatebooks.bsky.social) 🧵 @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
#Art lovers tickets already selling fast for Sue Prideaux's presentation of WILD THING @faberbooks.bsky.social ( @duffcooperprize.bsky.social shortlist ) Book now for May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Our Warden, Miles Young, comments on one of the shortlisted books for this year's Duff Cooper Prize. Six excellent books for you to be reading when you're tucked up away from the cold ❄️
Duff Cooper Prize@duffcooperprize.bsky.social · 2y ago'A brilliant piece of scholarship, applying for the first time a genuinely historical frame to same sex behaviour in the past. It is forensic, but utterly engrossing.' @DuffCooperPrize judge, Miles Young, on Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe. @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400 – 1750 by Noel Malcolm (Oxford University Press). 🧵 @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
Congratulations 🥂 from www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... N Cotswolds to Sue Prideaux WILD THING @faberbooks.bsky.social @duffcooperprize.bsky.social
Duff Cooper Prize@duffcooperprize.bsky.social · 2y agoCongratulations! Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux (Faber @faberbooks.bsky.social) is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025
🐈 wondering whether all #DuffCooperPrize shortlisted books have treats between the pages.
Duff Cooper Prize@duffcooperprize.bsky.social · 2y agoTo celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes (@4thestatebooks.bsky.social). 🧵 @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes (@4thestatebooks.bsky.social). 🧵 @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. We’re kicking off with, Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy by Mark Gilbert published (Allen Lane).
A really good shortlist for a really excellent prize
Duff Cooper Prize@duffcooperprize.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are proud to announce the shortlist for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025. The Prize celebrates the best in non-fiction writing with a £5,000 Prize and a Magnum of Pol Roger Brut Réserve being awarded to the winner. Congratulations to all shortlisted authors!
Congratulations to Michael Taylor on being shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize!
Duff Cooper Prize@duffcooperprize.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are proud to announce the shortlist for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025. The Prize celebrates the best in non-fiction writing with a £5,000 Prize and a Magnum of Pol Roger Brut Réserve being awarded to the winner. Congratulations to all shortlisted authors!
We are proud to announce the shortlist for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025. The Prize celebrates the best in non-fiction writing with a £5,000 Prize and a Magnum of Pol Roger Brut Réserve being awarded to the winner. Congratulations to all shortlisted authors!
