Which non-fiction titles are folk going to be reading & talking about this year (& into the next)?

Feel Good Friday? Sigh. RE fail.

Catch tomorrow's highlights including Sir Anthony Seldon on Boris Johnson, historian Julian Jackson on Marshall Petain and winning the The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize and Liam Byrne MP on the inequality of wealth The Telegraph #oxfordlitfest buff.ly/3Vg8VR6

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Julian Jackson has won the £5,000 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize (The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize) for France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain, published by Allen Lane 👇 thebookseller.com/news/julian-ja…

Historian Julian Jackson, celebrating the success of France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain, with a magnum of Pol Roger Portfolio. Jackson is one of just 3 writers to be awarded the Duff Cooper Prize twice in its 68 year history: alongside Anne Applebaum & @markmazower

The brilliant Julian Jackson wins the 68th Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain. Celebrate! With thanks to #PolRoger #NewCollege

Today's the Day! Stand by to discover which of the 5 great nonfiction reads shortlisted for #DuffCooperPrize is our 2024 winner. Meanwhile: support yr favourite bookshop by buying our choices at Bookshop.org uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-pol-…

Reasons to relish the #DuffCooperPrize shortlist: distinction, beauty, staying power, originality...

Oh thank you Elizabeth Speller This, by U A Fanthorpe, is TipTop

This. The excellent Mistress of Girton College. Cambridge is calling for poems Kate Clanchy Mukahang limbu Shukria Rezaei Lucy Thynne Young Poets Network

To celebrate this year's The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize head to our Instagram (@pol_roger) for a special competition🥂✨

You will be in for a chance to win:

📚 One copy of each of the five nominated non-fiction books

🍾 A Magnum of Pol Roger Brut Réserve, a Champagne fit for any occasion

A #booklovers shortlist to relish: intrigue, Manet, revolutions, Mughal India & high treason. Oh, there's the chance to win the whole set... #PolRoger #DuffCooperPrize

Reminder - we're open for submissions to our #care focus!

Deadline for submissions: 29 Jan

More info at the link below

Today's small pleasure for #amphibology lovers: the headline on this Times Books listicle.

New issue launch alert!

Launching MPT Fresh and Salt: Focus on Water: eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-mp…

Join contributors to the issue including Katrina Naomi and Mamata Nanda, for an evening of readings that celebrate the making and riding of waves.

Impressed

Rory Stewart on Steve Hilton is properly funny

‘He told me rapidly that he wanted to “blow up the Foreign Office”… and get rid of the ambassadors.

‘Later I saw him on the floor, staring at a map, saying: “Fuck me, look how big Scotland is. This is just fucking mad, man”.’

Hoping to see some old friends at this Power of Free Speech event with Lord Patten. 23rd September. lmh.ox.ac.uk/events/meeting…

Take your seats for our 60 year celebration.

If you are aged 16-25 the NT is offering free tickets from 2 October to see The Effect and their other productions!
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