The Orwell Prize shortlist has been released…

The nominees are:

Tom Bingham – The Rule of Law

Oliver Bullough – Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus

Helen Dunmore – The Betrayal

Christopher Hitchens – Hitch-22

Afsaneh Moqadam – Death to the Dictator!

D. R. Thorpe – Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan

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