Books by Sophie Harman
Interviews where books by Sophie Harman were recommended
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						                                                         1 The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
 by Sunil Amrith
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						                                                         2 The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin
 by Lucy Ash
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						                                                         3 The Golden Road
 by William Dalrymple
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						                                                         4 Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
 by Bronwen Everill
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						                                                         5 Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health
 by Sophie Harman
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						                                                         6 Sound Tracks: A Musical Detective Story
 by Graeme Lawson
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 British Academy Book Prize, recommended by Rebecca Earle
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 British Academy Book Prize, recommended by Rebecca Earle
To be shortlisted for the annual British Academy Book Prize, books have to be both rigorously researched and highly readable. Historian Rebecca Earle, chair of the 2025 judging panel, talks us through the books that made this year’s shortlist, from an environmental history that opens with Genghis Khan and the Mongol expansion to a ‘musical detective story’ that investigates the sounds made by our ancestors down the millennia.








