Patrick Radden Keefe, Ben Macintyre and the Guardian\u2019s Charlotte Higgins are among the 13 authors selected for the nonfiction award<\/p>\n
The Guardian\u2019s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins joins American investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe and bestselling historian Ben Macintyre on this year\u2019s Baillie Gifford prize longlist.<\/p>\n
Higgins\u2019 book, Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War<\/a>, examines the role of culture in Ukraine\u2019s resistance to Russia\u2019s invasion, drawing on multiple reporting trips to Ukraine. Keefe, who won the prize in 2021 with Empire of Pain, is listed again for London Falling<\/a>, which tells the story of Zac Brettler, a teenager who fell from a luxury London apartment after having posed as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. Macintyre\u2019s Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War\u2019s Most Extraordinary Spy, tells the story of a KGB double agent cultivated by MI6 in revolutionary Tehran.<\/p>\n
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