Books by Casey Cep
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
***Shortlisted for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction***
“This is flat-out one of the most enjoyable—or one of the most enjoyable—books I’ve read this year. It’s fascinating, thrilling, in the sense that it is a thriller, a nonfiction thriller. It has all the elements of a John Grisham novel, but it happened in real life.” Read more...
The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019
Stig Abell, Journalist
Interviews where books by Casey Cep were recommended
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons
by Laura Cumming -
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The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922 - 1968
by William Feaver -
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Maoism: A Global History
by Julia Lovell -
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Guest House for Young Widows: Among the women of ISIS
by Azadeh Moaveni -
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, recommended by Stig Abell
The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, recommended by Stig Abell
Every year, the Baillie Gifford Prize judges seek to identify the very best nonfiction books published in the last year. Here, the chair of this year’s judging panel Stig Abell talks us through the 2019 shortlist: a thrilling line-up of books that are as notable for their literary prowess as for their weight and significance.
