Spear's Book Awards

The Spear's Book Awards will take place on 29 September 2014. Shortlist

BUSINESS

Michael Lewis Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code

Iain Martin Making It Happen, Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy

Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Brad Stone The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon


BIOGRAPHY

Charles Beauclerk Piano Man: A Life of John Ogdon

Ben Macintyre A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Nicholas Shakespeare Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

Philip Short Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

FINANCIAL HISTORY

Angus Deaton The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality

Kwasi Kwarteng War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt

Richard Roberts Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914

Frederick Taylor The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class


FAMILY HISTORY

Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

Helen Rappaport Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Great Duchesses

Claudia Renton Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

Robert Sackville-West The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal

SOCIAL HISTORY

Juliet Barnes The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa’s Infamous Aristocrats

Vic Gatrell The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age

Claire Langhamer The English in Love: The Intimate History of an Emotional Revolution

Jerry White Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War


MEMOIR

Anjelica Huston A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York

Jonathan Meades Encyclopaedia of Myself

Anthony Russell Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle

Gary Shteyngart Little Failure: A Memoir

LARGE-FORMAT ILLUSTRATED BOOK

Clive Aslet An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams: The Americans Who Revived the Country House in Britain

Desmond Shawe-Taylor (ed) The First Georgians: Art & Monarchy 1714-1760

Edmund de Waal and Emma Crichton-Miller Edmund de Waal

David Yarrow Encounter

This is a bit late but....

The winners of the sixth annual Spear's Book Awards were announced (29 September 2014).

BUSINESS

Brad Stone The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Bantam Press) - winner

BIOGRAPHY

Ben Macintyre A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Bloomsbury) - winner

FINANCIAL HISTORY

Richard Roberts Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 (Oxford University Press) - winner

FAMILY HISTORY

Helen Rappaport Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses (Macmillan) - winner

SOCIAL HISTORY

Jerry White Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War (Bodley Head) - winner

MEMOIR

Jonathan Meades Encyclopaedia of Myself (Fourth Estate) - winner

LARGE-FORMAT ILLUSTRATED BOOK

Clive Aslet An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams: The Americans Who Revived the Country House in Britain (Aurum Press) - winner

These special awards will be announced on the day, in association with Laurent-Perrier:

HERITAGE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Simon Thurley The Building of England

OUTSTANDINGLY PRODUCED BOOK

David Yarrow Encounter

BEST FIRST BOOK

Rachel Kelly Black Rainbow