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Capital

The Eruption of Delhi

by Rana Dasgupta

Publication: First published 2014
ISBNs: 9781922079312, 9781443406055, 9781443406048

Orwell Prize 2015 · Shortlist

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Prize history

Orwell Prize for Political Writing
2015

Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.

Shortlist

Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2015 shortlist

Private Island

James Meek

Winner
Hack Attack

Nick Davies
In Plain Sight

Dan Davies
Modernity Britain

David Kynaston
People’s Republic of Amnesia

Louisa Lim

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A History of the Bible

John Barton
A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes
Appeasing Hitler

Tim Bouverie
Dream Sequence

Adam Foulds
Ducks, Newburyport

Lucy Ellmann
Frankissstein

Jeanette Winterson

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