SPEAR’S BOOK AWARDS LONGLIST
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Financial Book Of The Year
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George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (Princeton University Press)
Philip Augar
Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City’s Golden Decade (Bodley Head)
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
Philanthrocapitalism: How The Rich Can Save the World and Why We Should Let Them (A&C Black)
Vincent Cable
The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means (Atlantic Books)
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William D. Cohan
House of Cards: How Wall Street’s Gamblers Broke Capitalism: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Collapse of the Global Market (Allen Lane)
Gerald F. Davis
Managed by the Markets: How Finance Has Re-Shaped America (OUP)
Michael Panzner
When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era (John Wiley & Sons)
Robert J. Shiller
The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It (Princeton University Press)
George Soros
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means (Public Affairs, US)
Gillian Tett
Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little, Brown)
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Biography Of The Year
<br /> Richard Davenport-Hines
Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Anne De Courcy
Snowdon: A Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Caroline Moorehead
Dancing on the Precipice: Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution (Chatto & Windus)
Hans C. Ohanian
Einstein’s Mistakes (W.W. Norton & Co)
Frances Osborne
The Bolter: The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief’s Infamous Seductress (Virago Press)
John Rae
The Old Boys’ Network: John Rae’s Diaries, 1970-86 (Short Books)
Kenneth Roman
The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising (Palgrave Macmillan)
T.J. Stiles
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf)
Paul Strathern
The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior (Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Borgia) (Bantam)
Michael J. Unger
Magnifico (Lorenzo de Medici) (Simon & Schuster)
Edmund White
Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel (Atlantic Books)
Michael Wolff
The Man Who Owns the News (Bodley Head)
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Jackie Wullschlager
Chagall: Love and Exile (Allen Lane)
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Historical Book Of The Year
Liaquat Ahmed
Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great depression and the Bankers Who Broke the World (William Heinemann)
Bryan Burrough
Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Texas Oil Millionaires (Penguin Press)
Niall Ferguson
The Ascent of Money (Allen Lane)
Beverley Gage
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror (OUP)
David Marsh
The Euro (Yale University Press)
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Corporate Or Family History Of The Year
Humphrey Carpenter
The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty (John Murray)
Charles D. Ellis
The Partnership: A History of Goldman Sachs (Allen Lane)
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William Fiennes
The Music Room (Picador)
Meryl Gordon
Mrs Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Diarmuid Jeffreys
Hell’s Cartel: I.G. Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine (Metropolitan Books)
Tila J. Mazzeo
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It (HarperCollins)
Wendy Moore
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match (Phoenix)
Jane Mulvagh
Madresfield (Doubleday)
Adam Nicolson
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (Harper Press)
Jerry Oppenheimer
Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel (John Wiley & Sons)
Jane Wellesley
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
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Novel Of The Year
Simon Astaire
Private Privilege (Quartet Books)
Hans Fallada
Alone in Berlin (Penguin Classics)
Yiyun Li
The Vagrants (Fourth Estate)
Jonathan Littell
The Kindly Ones (Chatto & Windus)
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate)
CE Morgan
All the Living (Fourth Estate)
Joseph O’Neill
Netherland (Pantheon Books)
Marilynne Robinson
Home (Virago)
Colm Toibin
Brooklyn (Viking)
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Coffee-Table Book Of The Year
Guido Beltraminiand Howard Burns (eds)
Palladio (Royal Academy)
Mirabel Cecil and David Mlinaric
Mlinaric on Decorating (Frances Lincoln)
James H. Cromartie
Nantucket Portrait: Fun and Games with the Super Rich, the Birth of Hard-edge Realism (Schiffer)
Debrett’s
Debrett’s Guide for the Modern Gentleman (Debrett’s)
Marie-Noel de Gary and Jean-Marie del Moral
The Camondo Legacy: The Passions of a Paris Collector (Thames & Hudson)
Graham Diprose
London’s Changing Riverscape: Panoramas from London Bridge to Greenwich (Frances Lincoln)
Dr Ian Gordon and Simon Inglis
Great Lengths: The Historic Indoor Swimming Pools of Britain (English Heritage)
Lydia Greeves
Houses of the National Trust (National Trust)
Neil Harris
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age (Chicago University Press)
Robert Murphy and Ivan Terestchenko
The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge (Thames & Hudson)
Amit Pasricha and William Dalrymple
Monumental India (Constable)
Michael Snodin and Nigel Llewellyn
Baroque: Magnificence and Style (V&A Publishing)
Jack Stewart
Graffiti Kings: New York Transit Art of the 1970s (Harry N. Abrams)
Philippe Tretiack
Megalomania: The Madness of Builders (Assouline)
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Wealth Management Or Creation Book Of The Year
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John Kay
The Long and the Short of It (Erasmus Press)
John Man
Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan (Bantam)
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Spear’s Special Award
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Clive Aslet
The English House (Bloomsbury)
John Brewer
The American Leonardo: A Tale of 20th Century Obsession (Constable)
Laurence Leamer
Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach (Hyperion Books)
Prince Charles (foreword)
Highgrove Florilegium (Addison Publications)
Benjamin Wallace
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine (Crown Publishing)
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