Books by Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan (1961-) is a Tasmania-based writer. He has won both the Booker Prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for a novel, and the Baillie Gifford Prize, awarded for a work of nonfiction.
“There’s a connection with The Narrow Road to the Deep North because that book was also concerned with his father’s experience of being a slave laborer in the Second World War: he was an Australian captured by the Japanese…what holds this part memoir, part science, part history together is the personal thread. The book begins and ends with a kayaking accident the author, Richard Flanagan, has in a river in Tasmania. He is rescued, but only just. He describes this moment when he is floating above the river, looking down at himself. Is that death?” Read more...
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist
Isabel Hilton, Journalist
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
***Winner of the 2014 Booker Prize***
The Narrow Road to the Deep North tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, a doctor from Tasmania who, as an old man, flashes back to his time in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, building the infamous Burma Railway.
Interviews where books by Richard Flanagan were recommended
Booker Prize-Winning Novels
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize was Orbital, by Samantha Harvey, the first novel to win the prize that’s set in space. Below, our list of all the Booker Prize-winning novels of the last twenty years.
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Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
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The Racket
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Award-Winning Memoirs of 2024
Award-Winning Memoirs of 2024
Whether you fancy a quality sports autobiography or an artfully-illustrated graphic narrative, we’ve got suggestions for you. Here, we’ve put together a concise round-up of the award-winning memoirs of 2024 to help you find highly-acclaimed new books you might otherwise have missed.
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
by Julian Jackson -
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The Racket
by Conor Niland
10 Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2024
10 Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2024
All the winners of the nonfiction book prizes we cover at Five Books have now been announced. These include history, politics, business, science, sports and general nonfiction.
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Question 7
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
Baillie Gifford Prize-Winning Nonfiction Books
Baillie Gifford Prize-Winning Nonfiction Books
It's a prize that has been awarded annually since 1999 to a book that speaks to an important issue but is also highly readable. Below you'll find all the winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK's most prestigious non-fiction book award—from a gripping account of a turning point in World War II to a terrifying forest fire in an oil town in Canada.
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
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Question 7
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The Story of a Heart
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A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
by David Van Reybrouck
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist, recommended by Isabel Hilton
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist, recommended by Isabel Hilton
From nuclear war to a heartbreaking medical story, from the memoirs of novelists and the life of an artist to the struggle for independence in Indonesia, British journalist Isabel Hilton introduces the six books that made the shortlist of the UK’s most prestigious nonfiction prize.
