The books longlisted for the 2013 Orwell prize for political writing span the globe from Basra to Miami and from the far right to the frontiers of medical research. On the eve of the announcement of the shortlist, here's a reminder of the titles in the running.
Carmen Bugan Burying the Typewriter (Picador)
Marie Colvin On the Front Line (HarperPress)
Richard Holloway Leaving Alexandria (Canongate Books)
Pankaj Mishra From the Ruins of the Empire (Allen Lane)
Raja Shehadeh Occupation Diaries (Profile Books)
Clive Stafford Smith Injustice (Harvill Secker)
A. T. Williams A Very British Killing (Jonathan Cape)
A Very British Killing by AT Williams
An account of the death of an innocent hotel receptionist, Baha Mousa, in British custody in Iraq. Williams, who teaches law at the University of Warwick, details the killing and the flawed investigation and prosecutions which followed, and exposes what he calls "a culture of callous indifference that infected a whole battalion and permeated far up the command chain, both military and governmental".
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An account of the death of an innocent hotel receptionist, Baha Mousa, in British custody in Iraq. Williams, who teaches law at the University of Warwick, details the killing and the flawed investigation and prosecutions which followed, and exposes what he calls "a culture of callous indifference that infected a whole battalion and permeated far up the command chain, both military and governmental".
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