The list below is of all 263 264 books entered for this year’s Orwell Prize for Books. All were published in 2011. This is not a longlist (which will be announced on 28 March) or shortlist (25 April), but all of the books put forward. The books are listed alphabetically by author’s first name.
This year’s Book Prize judges are Miranda Carter, Helena Kennedy and Sameer Rahim.
A. D. Miller Snowdrops Atlantic Books
A. N. Wilson Dante in Love Atlantic Books
Abulrazak Gurnah The Last Gift Bloomsbury
A. C. Grayling The Good Book Bloomsbury
Adele Ward Everything is Free Ward Wood Publishing
Adrian McKinty Falling Glass Serpent’s Tail
Ai Weiwei with Hans Ulrich Obrist Ai Weiwei Speaks Penguin
Alan McCombes Downfall Birlinn
Alan Shadrake Once a Jolly Hangman Murdoch Books
Alana Lentin, Gavan Titley The Crises of Multiculturalism Zed Books
Alex Perry Life Blood Hurst
Alex von Tunzelmann Red Heat Simon & Schuster
Alison Irvine This Road is Red Luath Press
Alistair Darling Back from the Brink Atlantic Books
Allan Cameron Can the Gods Cry? Vagabond Voices
Amanda Coe What They Do In The Dark Virago
Andrew Feinstein The Shadow World Hamish Hamilton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Andrew Morrison Tommy This an’ Tommy That Biteback
Andrew Scott Allies Apart Palgrave Macmillan
Andrew Wilson Belarus Yale
Andy Kershaw No Off Switch Serpent’s Tail
Angela Saini Geek Nation Hodder & Stoughton
Angus Roxburgh The Strongman I. B. Tauris
Anna Funder All That I Am Viking
Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan The Eleventh Day Doubleday
Arthur Neslen In Your Eyes A Sandstorm University of California Press
Asher and Martin Hoyles Caribbean Publishing in Britain Hansib Books
Ashley Jackson Churchill Quercus Books
Bill Cash John Bright I. B. Tauris
Bill Rolston Children of the Revolution Guildhall Press
Bob Marshall-Andrews Off-Message Profile
Bobby Friedman Bercow: Mr Speaker Gibson Square
Bruce Charlton Thought Prison University of Buckingham Press
Bryan Appleyard The Brain is Wider than the Sky Weidenfield & Nicolson
Bryan Niblett Dare To Stand Alone Kramedart Press
Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid Sean MacBride: A Republican Life (1904-1946) Liverpool University Press
Carne Ross The Leaderless Revolution Simon & Schuster
Caroline Moorhead A Train in Winter Vintage
Catherine Bennett Mrs Cameron’s Diary Virago
Catherine Mayer Amortality Ebury Publishing
Centre for Social Justice No Excuses: A Review of Social Exclusion Centre for Social Justice
Charles Stross Rule 34 Orbit
Charlie Campbell Scapegoat Portobello Books
Charlie Wade The Bailout
Chris Bower Nick Clegg: The Biography Biteback
Chris Morgan Jones An Agent of Deceit Mantle
Chris Mullin A Walk-On Part Profile
Christopher Hitchens Arguably Atlantic Books
Christopher Hood The Blame Game Princeton University Press
Christopher Turner Adventures In The Orgasmatron Fourth Estate
Christopher Wallace Killing The Messenger Freight Books
Cita Stelzer Dinner with Churchill Short Books
Colin Leys, Stewart Player The Plot Against the NHS Merlin Press
Conor McCabe Sins of the Father The History Press Ireland
Conor O’Clery Moscow, December 25, 1991 Transworld
Conor Woodman Unfair Trade Random House Business Books
Craig Brown One On One Fourth Estate
Daisy Cooper The Commonwealth in Denial Commonwealth Advisory Bureau
Daisy Cooper, David Seddon, Tim Sheehy Review of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group: on the side of the people? Commonwealth Advisory Bureau
Dan Hancox Kettled Youth Bodley Head Brain Shots
Daniel Domscheit-Berg Inside WikiLeaks Jonathan Cape
Danny Chivers The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change New Internationalist
Danny Dorling So You Think You Know About Britain? Constable & Robinson
David Boyle The Human Element Earthscan
David Boyle, Andrew Simms The Ratio new economics foundation
David C Brotherton, Luis Barrios Banished to the Homeland University of Columbia Press
David Cannadine The Right Kind of History Palgrave Macmillan
David Cohen Calling London Evening Standard Books
David Craig Pillaged! Gibson Square
David Kauders The Greatest Crash Sparkling Books
David Kynaston City of London Chatto & Windus
David Lammy Out of the Ashes Guardian Books
David Leigh, Luke Harding WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy Guardian Books
Dean Evans Glimpses of a Black Op lulu.com
Deanne Heron Pardner Money Stories Hansib Books
Diane Frost, Richard Phillips Liverpool ’81: Remembering the Riots Liverpool University Press
Dick Chernobyl Kowtow Little Dragon Publishing
Dominic Streatfeild A History of the World Since 9/11 Atlantic Books
Donald Harman Akenson Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration (1815-1914) Liverpool University Press
Dorian Lynskey 33 Revolutions Per Minute Faber
Douglas Murray Bloody Sunday Biteback
Ed Siegle Invisibles Myriad Editions
Edna O’Brien Saints and Sinners Faber
Edward Wake-Walker A House for Spies Robert Hale
F. Stuart Ross Smashing H-Block Liverpool University Press
Felicity McCall A Pitying of Doves Guildhall Press
Frank Furedi On Tolerance Continuum
Frank Ledwidge Losing Small Wars Yale
Fred Halliday Political Journeys Saqi
Frederick Taylor Exorcising Hitler Bloomsbury
Gavin Knight Hood Rat Picador
Gemma Maclagan Protest Andre Deutsch
Gordon Corera The Art of Betrayal Weidenfield & Nicolson
Gordon Weiss The Cage Bodley Head
Greg Muttitt Fuel on the Fire Bodley Head
Guy Clinton The Destiny Secret
Hamid Dabashi Brown Skins, White Masks Pluto Press
Hanna Brau Weeds Don’t Perish Garnet
Heather Brooke The Revolution Will Be Digitised William Heinemann
Heather Peace All to Play For Legend Press
Hennie Lotter Poverty, Ethics and Justice University of Wales Press
Hisham Matar Anatomy of a Disappearance Viking
Iain P Russell Hunt and be Damned Pembertons Publishing
Iain Sinclair Ghost Milk Hamish Hamilton
Ilan Pappe The Forgotten Palestinians Yale
Imran Khan Pakistan Bantam Press
J. J. Connolly Viva La Madness Duckworth
J. M. Ledgard Submergence Jonathan Cape
Jack Fairweather A War Of Choice Jonathan Cape
James Barr A Line in the Sand Simon & Schuster
James Plunkett Growth Without Gain? Resolution Foundation
Jane McGonigal Reality is Broken Jonathan Cape
Jane Robinson A Force To Be Reckoned With Virago
Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb Sandstone Press
Jason Burke The 9/11 Wars Allen Lane
Jason Manolopoulos Greece’s ‘Odious’ Debt Anthem Press
Jasper Gerard The Clegg Coup Gibson Square
Jeffrey Sachs The Price of Civilisation Bodley Head
Jeremy Seabrook, Imran Ahmed Siddiqui People Without History Pluto Press
Jill Hedges Argentina: A Modern History I. B. Tauris
Joanna Bourke What It Means To Be Human Virago
Joe Murphy 1798: Tomorrow the Barrow We’ll Cross Liberties Press
John Berger Bento’s Sketchbook Verso
John Bew Castlereagh Quercus Books
John France Perilous Glory Yale
John Gray The Immortalization Commission Farrar, Straus and Giroux
John Rentoul The Banned List Elliott & Thompson
John Rodden The Unexamined Orwell University of Texas Press
Johnny West Karama! Quercus Books
Jon Alexander, Tom Crompton, Guy Shrubsole Think Of Me As Evil? Public Interest Research Centre
Jonathan Glancey Nagaland Faber
Jonathan Haslam Russia’s Cold War Yale
Jonathan Steele Ghosts of Afghanistan Portobello Books
Julia Lovell The Opium War Picador
Julian Assange The Unauthorised Biography Canongate
Justin Cartwright Other People’s Money Bloomsbury
Justin Webb Notes on Them and Us Short Books
Katharine Birbalsingh To Miss with Love Penguin
Katharine Quarmby Scapegoat Portobello Books
Keith Skene Escape From Bubbleworld Ard Macha Press
Ken Livingstone You Can’t Say That Faber
Kieran Yates, Nikesh Shukla Generation Vexed Bodley Head Brain Shots
Kieron Smith The Politics of Down Syndrome Zero Books
Kwasi Kwarteng Ghosts of Empire Bloomsbury
Lars T. Lih Lenin Reaktion Books
Laura Oldfield Ford Savage Messiah Verso
Laurie Penny Penny Red Pluto Press
Leaf Fielding To Hire Outside the Law Serpent’s Tail
Leif Jerram Streetlife Oxford University Press
Linda Grant We Had It So Good Virago
Lizzie Collingham The Taste of War Allen Lane
Lord Morris of Aberavon Fifty Years in Politics and the Law University of Wales Press
Lucretia Grindle The Lost Daughter Mantle
Lucy M. Edwards The Afghan Solution Bactria Press
Lucy Siegle To Die For Fourth Estate
Luke Andreski To The Bridge Dark Green Books
Luke Andreski Now We Are Green Dark Green Books
Luke Andreski The Book of New Creation Dark Green Books
Luke Harding Mafia State Guardian Books
M. Y. Alam The Invisible Village Route Publishing
Malcolm Dean Democracy Under Attack Policy Press
Margaret Hefferman Wilful Blindness Simon & Schuster
Mark Forsyth The Etymologicon Icon Books
Mark Lynas The God Species Fourth Estate
Mark Malloch-Brown The Unfinished Global Revolution Allen Lane
Mark Olden Murder in Notting Hill Zero Books
Martin Shipton Poor Man’s Parliament Seren
Mary Helen Spooner The General’s Slow Retreat University of California Press
Matt Korris A Year in the Life Hansard Society
Matthew Collins Hate Biteback
Matthew Greenwood The Treachery at Nether Stowey Blue Shed Press
Matthew Hancock, Nadhim Zahawi Masters of Nothing Biteback
Matthew Parker The Sugar Barons Hutchinson
Max Egremont Forgotten Land Picador
Mehdi Hasan The Debt Delusion Bodley Head Brain Shots
Mehdi Hasan, James MacIntyre Ed Biteback
Melissa Benn School Wars Verso
Michael D. Higgins Renewing the Republic Liberties Press
Michael Kerr The Destructors Irish Academic Press
Michael Lavalette, Chris Jones Voices from the West Bank Bookmarks
Michael McManus Tory Pride and Prejudice Biteback
Michael Smith Britain’s Secret War Andre Deutsch
Michael Weiss, Julia Pettengill The Age of Impunity Henry Jackson Society
Mirza Waheed The Collaborator Viking
Mischa Hiller Shake Off Telegram
Misha Glenny Dark Market Bodley Head
Mitch Miller, Johnny Rodger The Red Cockatoo Sandstone Press
Munira Mirza The Politics of Culture Palgrave Macmillan
Nadia Idle, Alex Nunns Tweets from Tahrir OR Books
Nariman Yousseff 18 Days of Grace Bodley Head Brain Shots
Nicholas Shaxson Treasure Islands Bodley Head
Nick Holdstock The Tree that Bleeds Luath Press
Nigel C. Winter Travelling with Mr Turner Panther Publishing
Nina De La Mer 4am Myriad Editions
Owen Jones Chavs Verso
Patrick French India: A Portrait Allen Lane
Patrick Lavender Being Blunt Quexata Publishing
Patrick Noble The Commons of Soil Upfront Publishing
Paul Broda Scientist Spies Matador
Paul Laverty Route Irish Route Publishing
Paul Mattick Business as Usual Reaktion Books
Paul Moody, Robin Turner The Search for the Perfect Pub Orion
Paul Oppenheimer Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology Continuum
Paul Ward Huw T Edwards University of Wales Press
Peadar Kirby, Mary P.Murphy Towards a Second Republic Pluto Press
Peter Beaumont Revolution Road Bodley Head Brain Shots
Peter Mangold Britain and the Defeated French I. B. Tauris
Peter Marks George Orwell the Essayist Continuum
Peter Oborne, Francis Weaver Guilty Men Centre for Policy Studies
Professor James Manor To sustain the Commonwealth commitment to human dignity Commonwealth Advisory Bureau
Rebecca Asher Shattered Harvill Secker
Richard Gott Britain’s Empire Verso
Richard Lloyd Parry People Who Eat Darkness Jonathan Cape
Richard Overy Britain at War 1939-1945 Carlton Books
Rob Lyons Panic On A Plate Imprint Academic
Robbie Gilligan Tony Gregory O’Brien Press
Robert Corfe This Was My England Arena Books
Robert Davidson Site Works Sandstone Press
Robert Service Spies and Commissars Macmillan
Robin Blackburn The American Crucible Verso
Robin Harris The Conservatives Bantam
Rodric Braithwaite Afgantsy Profile
Roger Hunt Be Silent or Be Killed Luath Press
Roger Osborne Of The People, By The People Bodley Head
Rory Stewart, Gerard Knaus Can Intervention Work? W. W. Norton & Company
Ross Raisin Waterline Viking
Sam Buckley Banana Republic UK Createspace
Sarah Spencer The Migration Debate Policy Press
Sherard Cowper Cowles Cables From Kabul Harper Press
Siddhartha Deb The Beautiful and The Damned Viking
Simon Baron-Cohen Zero Degrees of Empathy Allen Lane
Simon Chesterman One Nation Under Surveillance Oxford University Press
Simon Hallsworth, David Brotherton Urban Disorder and Gangs Runnymede Trust
Simon Lelic The Facility Picador
Simon Martin Sport Italia I. B. Tauris
Sonia Purnell Just Boris Aurum Press
Sophie Hardach The Registrar’s Guide for Detecting Forced Marriages Simon & Schuster
Stephen Barber Tragedy of Riches University of Buckingham Press
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English Bloomsbury
Steve Reicher, Cliff Stott Mad Mobs And Englishmen? Constable & Robinson
Steve Walker Steve Unwanted Short Books
Stewart Lansley The Cost of Inequality Gibson Square
Sue Eckstein Interpreters Myriad Editions
Suman Gupta Imagining Iraq Palgrave
Sunjeev Sahota Ours Are the Streets Picador
Susan Williams Who Killed Hammarskjold? Hurst
Syed Saleem Shahzad Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban Pluto Press
T. O. Smith Churchill, America and Vietnam 1941-45 Palgrave
Tahmima Anam The Good Muslim Canongate
Tariq Goddard The Message Zero Books
Theodore Dalrymple Anything Goes Monday Books
Tim Gee Counterpower New Internationalist
Tim Grady The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory Liverpool University Press
Tim Harford Adapt Little, Brown
Toby Harnden Dead Men Risen Quercus Books
Toby Young How to Set Up a Free School Penguin Shorts
Tom McKearney The Provisional IRA Pluto Press
Unknown Soldier The Skinback Fusiliers Skinback Books
Vanessa Mehrabian The General’s Café Xlibris
William Oxley Democratica Ember Press
William Ryan The Bloody Meadow Mantle
Winston Smith Generation F Monday Books
Yanis Varoufakis The Global Minotaur Zed Books
Zoe Lambert The War Tour Comma Press