The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize

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/how-to-e…

Congratulations to ⁦@TimBouverie⁩ on winning the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize ⁦@DuffCooperPrize⁩. Here he is signing copies of Allies at War ⁦@AldeLitFest⁩ last week.

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

All five great nonfiction titles shortlisted for @DuffCooperPrize are on sale via @bookshop_org_UK, which supports indy bookstores. 📚📚📚uk.bookshop.org/shop/polrogerd…

And three cheers for wilderness, as explored by #AdamWeymouth in his tremendous Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe @HutchHeinemann @CWAgencyUK duffcooperprize.org/portfolio-item…

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/portfolio-item…

The great biographer #RichardHolmes is shortlisted for his absolutely magnificent The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief. @HarperCollinsUK duffcooperprize.org/portfolio-item…

Our judges highly recommend A Scandal in Königsberg by @Clarkstopher and congratulate its publisher @AllenLaneBooks on its shortlisting for the 70th @DuffCooperPrize duffcooperprize.org/portfolio-item…

Hats off to @TimPBouverie @PenguinUKBooks @TheBodleyHead for his @DuffCooperPrize shortlisting for Allies at War. duffcooperprize.org/portfolio-item…

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/how-to-e…

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: oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve…

“‘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. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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/literature-eve…

‘He’s showing the two realities simultaneously, the mental reality and the physical reality and that’s just extraordinary.’ Listen to The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 winner Sue Prideaux interviewed by judge David Horspool on @TheTLS podcast. the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…