The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction is a British literary award established in 1978 by the
Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors’ organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its Dagger awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement. T ...
, who have awarded the
Gold Dagger
The Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year.
From 1955 to 1959, the organization named their top honor as the Crossed Red Herring Award. From ...
fiction award since 1955.
In 1978 and 1979 only there was also a silver award. From 1995 to 2002 it was sponsored by
The Macallan
The Macallan distillery is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland. The Macallan Distillers Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Edrington, which purchased the brand from Highland Distillers in 1999.English, Shi ...
(
Scotch whisky
Scotch whisky (; sco, Scots whisky/whiskie, whusk(e)y; often simply called whisky or Scotch) is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two), made in Scotland.
All Scotch whisky was originally made from malted barley. Commercial distil ...
brand) and known as The Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. In 2008 the award was sponsored by Owatonna Media (a London-based literary brand investor and owner). Between 2006 and 2010 it was awarded every other year, in even-numbered years, but in 2011 it returned as an annual award.. The prize is now a cheque for £1,000 and a decorative dagger.
Winners and shortlists
2020s
2020
* Winner:
Casey Cep
Casey Cep is an American author and journalist. Cep is a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'', and her work has appeared in ''The New York Times'', The Paris Review, ''The New Republic'', and other publications. Cep's debut non-fiction book, publish ...
, ''Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee''
** Peter Everett, ''Corrupt Bodies''
** Caroline Goode, ''Honour: Achieving Justice for
Banaz Mahmod
Banaz is a town and district of Uşak Province in the inner Aegean Region, Aegean region of Turkey. The mayor is Zafer Arpacı (Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AKP). Banaz district area neighbors those of two other districts of the same p ...
''
** Sean O'Connor, ''The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury''
** Adam Sisman, ''The Professor and the Parson''
** Susannah Stapleton, ''The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective''
2010s
Winners
2019
*
Ben Macintyre
Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British author, reviewer and columnist for ''The Times'' newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies.
Early life
Macintyre is the elder son of Ang ...
, ''The Spy and the Traitor'', Viking
2018
*
Thomas Harding
Thomas Harding (born 1448 in Cambridge, Gloucestershire, England and died at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, May 1532) was a sixteenth-century English religious dissident who, while waiting to be burnt at the stake as a Lollard in 1532, wa ...
, ''Blood on the Page'', William Heinemann
;2017
* Stephen Purvis, ''Close but no Cigar'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Close but no Cigar: a true story of prison life in Castro's Cuba).
2016
* Andrew Hankinson, ''You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life ou Are Raoul Moat', Scribe
2015
*
Dan Davies
Daniel Joseph "Dan" Davies (born December 25, 1965) is an American actor, screenplay writer and producer who wrote, co-produced and starred in the 2010 comedy film Ed Gein, the Musical, about the cannibalistic murderer and graverobber, Ed Gein. ...
, ''In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile'', Quercus
;2014
*
Adrian Levy
Adrian Levy (born 1965) is a journalist and film maker who currently writes for ''The Guardian''.
Specialising in long-form investigative work, his pieces most often filed from Asia are published in ''The Guardian's'Weekendmagazine. Levy's work h ...
&
Cathy Scott-Clark
Cathy Scott-Clark is a British journalist and author. She has worked with the ''Sunday Times'' and ''The Guardian''. She has co-authored six books with Adrian Levy.
Books
Seven books co-authored with Adrian Levy:
* ''The Stone of Heaven: Uneart ...
, ''The Siege'', Viking
;2013
* Paul French, ''Midnight in Peking'', Penguin (The 1937
murder of Pamela Werner
On the morning of 8 January 1937, the severely mutilated body of Pamela Werner (believed born 7 February 1917) was found near the Fox Tower in Beijing, China, just outside the city's Legation Quarter. The only child of sinologist and retired Brit ...
in Beijing)
2012
*
Anthony Summers
Anthony Bruce Summers (born 21 December 1942) is an Irish author. He is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and has written ten non-fiction books.
Career
Summers is an Irish citizen who has been working with Robbyn Swan for more than thirty years befor ...
&
Robbyn Swan
Robbyn Swan is an American journalist and author. Her book, ''The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden'', co-authored by her husband Anthony Summers, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Early life and education
...
, ''The Eleventh Day,'' Transworld
;2011
* Douglas Starr, ''The Killer of Little Shepherds'' (The crimes and conviction of the nineteenth-century French serial murderer
Joseph Vacher
Joseph Vacher (16 November 1869 – 31 December 1898) was a French serial killer and necrophile, sometimes known as "The French Ripper" or "L'éventreur du Sud-Est" ("The South-East Ripper") owing to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripp ...
)
;2010
*
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Ruth Dudley Edwards (born 24 May 1944) is an Irish Unionist historian and writer, with published work in the fields of history, biography and crime fiction, and a number of awards won. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she has lived in England since 1965 ...
, ''Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing & the Families’ Pursuit of Justice'' (The successful civil case taken against the suspects for the
Omagh bombing
The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who oppose ...
)
2000s
;2008
*
Kester Aspden
Kester may refer to:
* Kester (name), a surname and given name
* Kester (artist), alias of Mozambican artist Cristóvão Canhavato
* Kester, Belgium, a village in the Belgian municipality of Gooik
Gooik () is a municipality located in the Belgian ...
, ''Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale'' (Death of
David Oluwale
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
in Leeds in 1969)
**
Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman (born 1954) is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. His most recent novel, ''Monkey Boy'' (2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fi ...
, ''The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi'' (Death of
Juan José Gerardi Conedera
Juan José Gerardi Conedera (27 December 1922 – 26 April 1998) was a Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights defender who was long active in working with the indigenous Mayan peoples of the country.
In the 1970s he gained governmen ...
in Guatemala in 1998)
** David Rose, ''Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South'' (The case of
Carlton Gary
Carlton Michael Gary (September 24, 1950 – March 15, 2018) was an American serial killer who murdered three elderly women in Columbus, Georgia, and one in Syracuse, New York, between 1975 and 1978, though he is suspected of at least four more ...
, sentenced to death in 1986 in Georgia, USA)
**
Duncan Staff
Duncan may refer to:
People
* Duncan (given name), various people
* Duncan (surname), various people
* Clan Duncan
* Justice Duncan (disambiguation)
Places
* Duncan Creek (disambiguation)
* Duncan River (disambiguation)
* Duncan Lake (d ...
, ''The Lost Boy'' (Keith Bennett, victim of the
Moors Murders
The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward E ...
, England, 1964)
**
Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale (born 1965) is an English writer and journalist.
Biography
Summerscale was brought up in Japan, England and Chile. After attending Bedales School (1978–1983), she took a double-first at Oxford University and an MA in journ ...
, ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House'' (Murder in 1860 in Somerset, England, to which
Constance Kent
Constance Emily Kent (6 February 1844 – 10 April 1944) was an English woman who confessed to the murder of her half-brother, Francis Saville Kent, in 1860, when she was aged 16 and he aged three. The case led to high-level pronouncements ther ...
confessed)
** Peter Zimonjic, ''Into the Darkness: 7/7'' (First-hand account of the
7 July 2005 London bombings
The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamic terrorists in London that targeted commuters travelling on the city's public transport system during the mo ...
)
;2006
*
Linda Rhodes
Linda may refer to:
As a name
* Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named)
* Linda (singer) (born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer
* Anita Linda (born Alice Lake i ...
, Lee Shelden, and Kathryn Abnett, ''The Dagenham Murder: The Brutal Killing of PC George Clark, 1846'' (Murder of policeman George Clark in 1846 in Dagenham, London)
**
Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on Dirty,_dangerous_and_demeaning, dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of Light_infantry#United_Sta ...
, ''A Death in Belmont'' (
Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler is the name given to the murderer of 13 women in the Boston, Massachusetts, area during the early 1960s. The crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo based on his confession, details revealed in court during a separate case, ...
murders of 1962-64 in USA)
**
Nuala O'Faolain
Nuala O'Faolain (; 1 March 19409 May 2008) was an Irish people, Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and writer. She became well known after the publication of her memoirs ''Are You Somebody?'' and ''Almost There''. She wrote a b ...
, ''The Story of Chicago May'' (Irish-born international criminal
Chicago May
Chicago May (1871–1929) was the nickname of Mary Anne Duignan, an Irish-born criminal who became notorious in the U.S., United Kingdom and France. She referred to herself as the "queen of crooks" and sometimes used the name May Churchill.
Ear ...
, born May Duignan)
**Sister
Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean ( ; born April 21, 1939) is a Catholic religious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.
She is known for her best-selling book, '' Dead Man Walking'' (1993), based on her experiences with t ...
, ''The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions'' (Executions of
Dobie Gillis Williams
Dobie Gillis Williams (1961 – January 8, 1999) was an American criminal in Louisiana who was convicted of the murder of Sonja Knippers in 1984, and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1999. His case has been controversial.
Police contended th ...
William Queen
William "Billy" Queen Jr. is a retired undercover agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the author of the bestselling books ''Under and Alone'' and ''Armed and Dangerous''. Career
Queen was raised in ...
Mongols
The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal membe ...
gang in USA)
** Sue Williams, ''And Then the Darkness: The Fascinating Story of the Disappearance of Peter Falconio and the Trials of Joanne Lees'' (Disappearance of
Peter Falconio
Peter Falconio was a British tourist who disappeared in a remote part of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia on the evening of 14 July 2001, while travelling with his girlfriend Joanne Lees.
In the afte ...
in Australia, 2001)
;2005
* Gregg and Gina Hill, ''On The Run: a Mafia childhood'' (By the children of
Henry Hill
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant. Hill testif ...
, American mobster)
**
Bella Bathurst
Bella Bathurst (born in 1969 in London) is an English writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. Her novel ''The Lighthouse Stevensons'' won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award.
Biography
Bathurst was born in London and presently lives in Scotla ...
, ''The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks.'' ( Wrecking off the UK coast)
**
Eric Jager
Eric Jager (born 27 April 1957) is an American literary critic and a specialist in medieval literature. He is a professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles, received his B.A. from Calvin College in 1979, and ...
, ''The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France'' (Trial by combat of
Jean de Carrouges
Sir Jean de Carrouges IV (c. 1330s – 25 September 1396) was a French knight who governed estates in Normandy as a vassal of Count Pierre d'Alençon and who served under Admiral Jean de Vienne in several campaigns against the Kingdom of Engl ...
, France, 1386)
**
Sadakat Kadri
Sadakat Kadri (born 1964 in London) is a lawyer, author, travel writer and journalist. One of his foremost roles as a barrister was to assist in the prosecution of former Malawian president Hastings Banda. As a member of the New York Bar he has w ...
, ''The Trial: a history from Socrates to O. J. Simpson'' (History of
trials
In law, a trial is a coming together of parties to a dispute, to present information (in the form of evidence) in a tribunal, a formal setting with the authority to adjudicate claims or disputes. One form of tribunal is a court. The tribunal, w ...
).
** James Owen, ''A Serpent in Eden: The Greatest Murder Mystery of All Time'' (Murder of
Harry Oakes
Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (23 December 1874 – 7 July 1943) was a British gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned his fortune in Canada and moved to the Bahamas in the 1930s for tax purposes. Though American by b ...
in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1943)
;2004
''Joint winners''
* John Dickie, ''Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia'' (History of the
Sicilian mafia
The Sicilian Mafia, also simply known as the Mafia and frequently referred to as Cosa nostra (, ; "our thing") by its members, is an Italian Mafia-terrorist-type organized crime syndicate and criminal society originating in the region of Sicily a ...
from its 1860s beginnings)
*
Sarah Wise
Sarah (born Sarai) is a Patriarchs (Bible)#Matriarchs, biblical matriarch and Prophet, prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her ...
, ''The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London'' (The Italian Boy murder, London, 1831)
** Rebecca Gowers, ''The Swamp of Death: A True Tale of Victorian Lies and Murder'' (
Reginald Birchall
Reginald Birchall (''aka Lord Frederick A. Somerset'') (25 May 1866 – 14 November 1890) was a British conman who was convicted of killing one of his victims in Canada. He was hanged at Woodstock, Ontario.
Crime
Born into a wealthy family in ...
, a young Englishman who set off for Canada in 1890 and was found dead in a swamp shortly after arriving)
** Steve Holland, ''The Trials of Hank Janson'' (Censorship of crime writer
Hank Janson
Hank Janson is both a fictional character and a pseudonym created by the English author Stephen Daniel Frances who died in 1989. Frances wrote a series of thrillers by, and often featuring, Hank Janson, beginning with ''When Dames Get Tough'' (19 ...
in 1940s Britain)
**
Mende Nazer
Mende Nazer (born c. 1982) is a UK-resident, Sudanese author and human rights activist. Nazer was a slave in Sudan and in London for eight years. She later co-wrote the 2002 book ''Slave: My True Story''.
Abduction
Nazer is a Nuba woman from a v ...
and
Damian Lewis
Damian Watcyn Lewis (born 11 February 1971) is an English actor, presenter and producer. He is best known for portraying U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries '' Band of Brothers'', which earned him a Golden Globe nomination ...
, ''Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and her Fight for Survival'' (
Mende Nazer
Mende Nazer (born c. 1982) is a UK-resident, Sudanese author and human rights activist. Nazer was a slave in Sudan and in London for eight years. She later co-wrote the 2002 book ''Slave: My True Story''.
Abduction
Nazer is a Nuba woman from a v ...
's own story)
;2003
*
Samantha Weinberg
Samantha Weinberg is a British novelist, journalist and travel writer. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, she is the author of books such as ''A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth'' and the James B ...
, ''Pointing from the Grave: a True Story of Murder and DNA'' (Murder of Helena Greenwood in 1985 in California and early use of
DNA profiling
DNA profiling (also called DNA fingerprinting) is the process of determining an individual's DNA characteristics. DNA analysis intended to identify a species, rather than an individual, is called DNA barcoding.
DNA profiling is a forensic tec ...
to identify her killer 15 years later)
**
Michael Bilton
Robert Michael Bilton (14 December 1919 – 5 November 1993) was an English actor best known for his roles in the British television sitcoms ''To the Manor Born'' (playing the gardener and sometime butler Ned) and '' Waiting for God'' (playing ...
, ''Wicked Beyond Belief: the Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper'' (
Peter Sutcliffe
Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020) was an English serial killer who was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper (an allusion to Jack the Ripper) by the press. Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting t ...
H. H. Holmes
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Until his execution in 1896, he ...
and the
1893 Chicago World's Fair
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...
, USA)
**
Chandak Sengoopta
Chandak Sengoopta is a professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public ...
, ''Imprint of the Raj: the Colonial Origin of Fingerprinting and Its Voyage to Britain'' (The science of
fingerprint
A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. The recovery of partial fingerprints from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science. Moisture and grease on a finger result in fingerprints on surfac ...
ing, developed in India and first used in court in England in 1902)
** Donald Thomas, ''An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War'' (Events in Britain during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
)
** Peter Walsh, ''Gang War: the Inside Story of the Manchester Gangs'' (Contemporary gangs in
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
)
;2002
* Lillian Pizzichini, ''Dead Man's Wages: the secrets of a London conman and his family'' (Life of conman Charlie Taylor, the author's grandfather)
**
Miranda Carter
Miranda Carter (born 1965) is an English historian, writer and biographer who also publishes fiction under the name MJ Carter.Jake Kerridge ''The Telegraph'', 23 April 2015.
Education
Carter was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter Col ...
, ''Anthony Blunt, His Lives'' (
Anthony Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy.
Blunt was professor of art history at the University of London, dire ...
(1907-1983), British spy and art historian)
**
Don Hale
Don Hale (born July 1952) is a British author and journalist known for his investigative work and campaigning against miscarriage of justice in specific legal cases.
Early life
Hale played football at youth and reserve level for Bury, Blackbu ...
(with Marika Huns & Hamish McGregor), ''Town Without Pity: the Fight to Clear Stephen Downing of the Bakewell Murder'' ( Stephen Downing, jailed for murder in 1974, conviction overturned in 2002)
**Special mention: Julian Earwaker & Kathleen Becker, ''Scene of the Crime: a Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction''Judged to be outside the scope of the award but worthy of commendation
;2001
* Philip Etienne and Martin Maynard (with Tony Thompson), ''The Infiltrators: the First Inside Account of Life Deep Undercover with Scotland Yard's Most Secret Unit'' (Two members of
SO10
SO10 was the former designation of the Metropolitan Police's Covert Operations Group.
History
The group's origins can be traced back to 1960, with the formation of what was known as the Criminal Investigation Branch, which later evolved and was m ...
, the Metropolitan Police's undercover unit)
** Zacaria Erzinçlioglu, ''Maggots, Murder and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist'' (
Forensic entomology
Forensic entomology is the scientific study of the colonization of a dead body by arthropods. This includes the study of insect types commonly associated with cadavers, their respective life cycles, their ecological presences in a given environme ...
)
**
Adrian Weale
Adrian Weale (born 9 February 1964) is a British writer, journalist, illustrator and photographer of Welsh origin. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, University of York, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Joint Services Command and St ...
, ''Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason'' (
Roger Casement
Roger David Casement ( ga, Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during Worl ...
and
John Amery
John Amery (14 March 1912 – 19 December 1945) was a British fascist and Nazi collaborator during World War II. He was the originator of the British Free Corps, a volunteer Waffen-SS unit composed of former British and Dominion prisoners-o ...
, the only Britons to be executed for high treason in the 20th century)
;2000
*
Edward Bunker
Edward Heward Bunker (December 31, 1933 – July 19, 2005) was an American author of crime fiction, a screenwriter, convicted felon and an actor. He wrote numerous books, some of which have been adapted into films. He wrote the scripts for—a ...
, ''Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade'' (The author's own story of a life of crime)
1990s
;1999
*
Brian Cathcart
Brian Cathcart (born 26 October 1956) is an Irish-born journalist, academic and media campaigner based in the United Kingdom. He is professor of journalism at Kingston University London and in 2011 was a founder of Hacked Off, which campaigns for ...
, ''The Case of Stephen Lawrence''
;1998
*
Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 192114 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of infamous figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of ...
, ''Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill - The Story of Mary Bell''
;1997
*
Paul Britton
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
*Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...
, ''The Jigsaw Man (The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist)''
;1996
*
Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (' Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and pr ...
, ''The Gunpowder Plot''
;1995
* Martin Beales, ''Dead Not Buried''
;1994
*
David Canter
David Victor Canter (born 5 January 1944) is a psychologist. He began his career as an architectural psychologist studying the interactions between people and buildings, publishing and providing consultancy on the designs of offices, schools, ...
Charles Nicholl
Charles "Boomer" Bowen Nicholl (19 June 1870 – 9 July 1939) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cambridge University and Llanelli. Nicholl played for Wales on fifteen occasions during the 1891 and 1896 Ho ...
, ''The Reckoning''
;1991
*
John Bossy
John Antony Bossy FBA (30 April 1933 – 23 October 2015) was a British historian who was a professor of history at the University of York.
Career
Bossy was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was inspired by Walter Ullmann. He ...
, ''Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair''
;1990
*
Jonathan Goodman
Jonathan may refer to:
*Jonathan (name), a masculine given name
Media
* ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer
* ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski
* ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...
, ''The Passing of Starr Faithfull''
1980s
;1989
* Robert Lindsey, ''A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit''
;1988
*
Bernard Wasserstein
Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948 in London) is a British historian.
Early life
Bernard Wasserstein was born in London on 22 January 1948. Wasserstein's father, Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), born in Frankfurt, was Professor of Class ...
, ''The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln''
;1987
*
Bernard Taylor Bernard Taylor may refer to:
*Bernard Taylor (author) (born 1934), British horror and suspense author
*Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield (1895–1991), British coalminer and politician
*Bernard Taylor (boxer) (born 1957), American boxer
*Be ...
John Bryson
John Edgar Bryson (born July 24, 1943) is the former United States Secretary of Commerce, the 37th person to hold the post since its establishment in 1913. Prior to this, he served as the chairman, chief executive officer and president of Edison ...
, ''Evil Angels''
;1985
*
Brian Masters
Brian Masters (born 1939) is a British writer, best known for his biographies of serial killers. He has also written books on French literature, the British aristocracy, and theatre, and has worked as a translator.
Early life
Masters "grew up ...
, ''Killing for Company''
;1984
*
David Yallop
David Anthony Yallop (27 January 1937 – 23 August 2018) was a British author who wrote chiefly about unsolved crimes. In the 1970s, he contributed scripts for a number of BBC comedy shows. In the same decade he also wrote 10 episodes for the IT ...
, ''In God's Name''
;1983
* Peter Watson, ''Double Dealer: How Five Art Dealers, Four Policemen, Three Picture Restorers, Two Auction Houses and a Journalist Plotted to Recover Some of the World's Most Beautiful Stolen Paintings''
;1982
* John Cornwell, ''Earth to Earth''
;1981
*
Jacobo Timerman
Jacobo Timerman (6 January 1923 – 11 November 1999), was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a peri ...
, ''Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number''
;1980
*
Anthony Summers
Anthony Bruce Summers (born 21 December 1942) is an Irish author. He is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and has written ten non-fiction books.
Career
Summers is an Irish citizen who has been working with Robbyn Swan for more than thirty years befor ...
Gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...