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\"All the best stories are true.\"\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\nEvery year the Baillie Gifford Prize<\/a>\u00a0has the impressive ambition of trying to identify the year's best nonfiction book<\/a>. Judges read dozens of books trying to find ones that combine excellent writing with important topics.\r\n\r\nBelow, our annual interviews with the chair of the judging panel, as well as book recommendations we have on file from some of the authors whose books have been shortlisted for the prize. At the shortlist stage of the prize, all the books will be excellent, highly readable books and well worth your time, whatever the topic. In fact, reading a book on the shortlist is a good chance to read about something you didn't think you wanted to know about.\r\n\r\nFor authors, the Baillie Gifford Prize is one of the most generous book prizes, with \u00a350,000 going to the winning book. It's open to authors of any nationality, provided their book is published in the UK, and could be about any nonfiction topic: current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography or the arts.\r\n\r\nIn 2023, to\u00a0celebrate the prize's 25th anniversary, judges picked out a winner of winners<\/a> from a shortlist of six\u2014revealing the best nonfiction books of the past quarter of a century.<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/books\/baillie-gifford-prize\/","name":"The Baillie Gifford Prize","slug":"baillie-gifford-prize","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/23369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=23369"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?tags=23369"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?tags=23369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}