Two surgeons, an ‘accidental professor’ and a songwriter are among the contenders for the UK’s most prestigious award for nonfiction
‘At times it feels like a series of free-standing disquisitions on individual books tied together with a fetching thread of reminiscence. It is for the most part very skilfully done.’ – Stefan Collini
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‘Watt, best known as half of Everything But the Girl, says one reason he chose to study at Hull University at the start of the 1980s was because Philip Larkin was a librarian there. The melancholic poet’s voice can be heard in the very first line of Romany and Tom.’ - Sukhdev Sandhu
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‘Moorehead’s rigorously researched and well-balanced account relates how an isolated agricultural community not only managed to hide some 800 Jewish refugees, but helped a further 3,000 to cross France’s borders to safety in Switzerland.’ - Elizabeth Lowry
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