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Lovers and Strangers

An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain

by Clair Wills

Publication: First published 2017
ISBNs: 9780141974965, 9781846147166, 9780141974972

Orwell Prize 2018 · Shortlist

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xxii, 441 pages : 24 cm

Prize history

Orwell Prize for Political Writing
2018

Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.

Shortlist

Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2018 shortlist

Poverty Safari

Darren McGarvey

Winner
Testosterone Rex

Cordelia Fine
The Islamic Enlightenment

Christopher de Bellaigue
What You Did Not Tell

Mark Mazower
Winter

Ali Smith

Same country and decade

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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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