We are pleased to be working with the Samuel Johnson Prize to involve reading groups in reading and reviewing the shortlist. The shortlist is announced on 2 October and we will soon be announcing details of how reading groups can take part in reading one of the shortlisted titles.
In the meantime, the longlist has just been announced:
* Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (Portobello Books)
* One on One by Craig Brown (Fourth Estate)
* Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (The Bodley Head)
* The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Puti by Masha Gessen (Granta Books)
* Feathers by Thor Hansen (Basic Books)
* Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Allen Lane)
* The Old Way by Robert MacFarlane (Hamish Hamilton)
* Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape)
* Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genuis by Sylvia Nasar (Fourth Estate)
* Winter King by Thomas Penn (Allen Lane)
* The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker (Allen Lane)
* The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston (HarperPress)
* Strindberg A Life by Sue Prideaux (Yale University Press)
* Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)
