A £5,000 annual prize for non-fiction, celebrating imaginative insight, compelling narrative, scholarship & good writing since 1956. Next awarded 16 March 26.
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UK publishers! Nominate yr best non-fiction of 2026 for the 71st Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize so our eminent judges - led by @artemis_cooper (below, with latest winner @TimPBouverie ) - can choose what to call in. The form is here: send it in soon 🍾📚🍾duffcooperprize.org/about/ho…
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This poem was written in one of my online workshops. If you'd like to try one out next Tuesday for £5, check out the link and info below.
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My latest interview is with @TimPBouverie, author of the excellent "Allies at War," winner of this year's @DuffCooperPrize. (Also, fellow @ChCh_Oxford historian)
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Congratulations to @TimBouverie on winning the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize. Here he is signing copies of Allies at War @AldeLitFest last week.
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Utterly delighted and deeply honoured that ‘Allies at War’ has won the 70th @DuffCooperPrize
"We need more history, not less..." 2026 winner Tim Bouverie speaks at the award ceremony last night where he won this year's prize for Allies At War @NewCollegeOx @PolRogerEpernay @HeywoodHill @TimPBouverie
Congratulations to 'brilliant young historian' @TimBouverie on winning the 70th #DuffCooperPrize for the fast-paced, wide-ranging & resonant Allies At War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler. duffcooperprize.org @PolRogerEpernay @NewCollegeOx
"...written with rigour, originality & narrative drive" Terrific round-up of the best non-fiction reads of the last year on @five_books by @PolRogerEpernay #DuffCooperPrize judge @aholgate fivebooks.com/best-books/non…
The #DuffCooperPrize shortlist ready for reading, alongside previous winners. Shout out for #NewCollegeOxford
Check out our book display featuring the shortlist for the Duff Cooper Prize 2026, along with the past winners.📚
The Duff Cooper Prize celebrates its 70th Anniversary and the winner will be announced on March 16th. Get reading and find out more: @DuffCooperPrize @NewCollegeOx.
All five great nonfiction titles shortlisted for @DuffCooperPrize are on sale via @bookshop_org_UK, which supports indy bookstores. 📚📚📚uk.bookshop.org/shop/polroge…
And three cheers for wilderness, as explored by #AdamWeymouth in his tremendous Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe @HutchHeinemann @CWAgencyUK duffcooperprize.org/portfoli…
Shout out for @mrianleslie & the shortlisting of his captivating take on the relationship that powered the #Beatles John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs @FaberBooks duffcooperprize.org/portfoli…
The great biographer #RichardHolmes is shortlisted for his absolutely magnificent The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief. @HarperCollinsUK duffcooperprize.org/portfoli…
Our judges highly recommend A Scandal in Königsberg by @Clarkstopher and congratulate its publisher
@AllenLaneBooks on its shortlisting for the 70th
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Hats off to @TimPBouverie @PenguinUKBooks @TheBodleyHead for his @DuffCooperPrize shortlisting for Allies at War. duffcooperprize.org/portfoli…
Read the great non-fiction authors on our 70th anniversary shortlist. Heartiest congrats to @TimPBouverie @Clarkstopher @mrianleslie #AdamWeymouth #RichardHolmes 🍾📚🍾
Calling all UK publishers of great non-fiction 📚. Tell our judges about the best books you're bringing out this year. Nominations for the 70th #duffcooperprize 🎉 now open until 1 June 2025. Details here: duffcooperprize.org/about/ho…
“‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light”
Sue Prideaux discusses her Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize-winning biography Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin in today’s @GuardianBooks.
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Join Sue Prideaux, along with The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize judges Artemis Cooper & Miles Young, and @calrevelycalder, over a glass of fizz at @NewCollegeOx as part of @oxfordlitfest.
Noon, Friday 4th April, book now:
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What makes great non-fiction? Does a biography's success depend on its subject? Book now to discuss on April 4 over free fizz 🥂in New College with Sue Prideaux #DuffCooperPrize winner plus Artemis Cooper & @calrevelycalder @Telegraphbooks @oxfordlitfest oxfordliteraryfestival.org/l…
