Five of the six books on this year’s shortlist for the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction are by women. Caroline Elkins’ Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire; Sally Hayden’s My Fourth Time, We Drowned; Anna Keay’s The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown; Polly Morland’s A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story, and Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne take up all but one of the places.
Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins (Vintage)
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland (John Murray)
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden (4th Estate)
The Restless Republic by Anna Keay (William Collins)
A Fortunate Woman by Polly Morland (Picador)
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (Faber)
