Robbie Millen
Robbie Millen is the chair of the judging panel for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He has been literary editor of the Times since 2013 and the Sunday Times since 2024. Before that, he was deputy comment editor of the Times for more than a decade and assistant editor of the Spectator. He has been a judge for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Interviews with Robbie Millen
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The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
by Jason Burke -
2
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries
by Helen Garner -
3
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
by Richard Holmes -
4
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
by Justin Marozzi -
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Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe
by Adam Weymouth -
6
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark
by Frances Wilson
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist, recommended by Robbie Millen
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist, recommended by Robbie Millen
From the terrorists who came up with the idea of hijacking planes to get attention to a biography of the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark, the books in the running for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize, as always, display a wonderful breadth. Robbie Millen, literary editor of the Times and chair of the 2025 judging panel, talks us through the shortlist of the UK’s most prestigious nonfiction book prize.
