The Sunday Times bestselling book Time to Think by Hannah Barnes has been longlisted for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction alongside twelve other books.
This year’s judging panel includes the Literary Editor of the Financial Times, Frederick Studemann (chair); author Andrea Wulf, theatre critic for The Guardian Arifa Akbar, the writer and historian Ruth Scurr, journalist and critic Tanjil Rashid and Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts, Andrew Haldane.
The judges said: ‘Hannah Barnes steadfastly refuses to enter into the Manichean ideological debates and culture wars around gender identity. Instead she unearths the facts to present an alarming story of medical scandal’.
The announcement will take place on Sunday 8 October in a live event at Cheltenham Literature Festival and the winner will be announced on Thursday 16 November at an award ceremony at the Science Museum.
As part of the celebrations marking the prize’s 25th anniversary this year, it has been decided that as well as the winning author receiving £50,000, the other shortlisted authors will each receive £5,000 (up from £1,000), bringing the total prize value up to £75,000.