Books by Minoo Dinshaw
Minoo Dinshaw is a London-based writer. His second book, Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War was published in January 2025. He is one of the judges of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize.
Interviews with Minoo Dinshaw
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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
by Mark Gilbert -
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Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World
by Kathryn Hughes -
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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett -
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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750
by Noel Malcolm -
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
by Sue Prideaux -
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
by Michael Taylor
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Minoo Dinshaw
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Minoo Dinshaw
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 judges. He introduces the six brilliant books that made the shortlist of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, from the history of post-World War II Italy to the disputes caused by the discovery of dinosaur fossils.
