Английская Википедия:CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

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The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction is a British literary award established in 1978 by the Crime Writers' Association, who have awarded the Gold Dagger fiction award since 1955.

In 1978 and 1979 only there was also a silver award. From 1995 to 2002 it was sponsored by The Macallan (Scotch whisky brand) and known as The Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. In 2008 the award was sponsored by Owatonna Media (a London-based literary brand investor and owner). Between 2006 and 2010 it was awarded every other year, in even-numbered years, but in 2011 it returned as an annual award. Шаблон:As of it is called the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. The prize is now a cheque for £1,000 and a decorative dagger.

Winners and shortlists

2020s

2023

• Winner: Wendy Joseph, Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey. (Transworld). Revealing, humane and gripping stories from Wendy Joseph, a retired Old Bailey judge
  • Stephen Bates, The Poisonous Solicitor (Icon Books)
  • Martin Edwards, The Life of Crime (HarperCollins)
  • Amit Katwala, Tremors in the Blood (HarperCollins)
  • Julie Mackay & Robert Murphy, To Hunt a Killer (HarperCollins)
  • David Whitehouse, About A Son (Orion Publishing Group)

2022

• Winner: Julia Laite, The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice. (Profile Books). An account of the short life of a New Zealand woman trafficked as part of the burgeoning sex trade at the start of the twentieth century
  • Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne, The Devil You Know (Faber and Faber)
  • Julie Kavanagh, The Irish Assassins (Atlantic Books; Grove Press UK)
  • Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain (Pan Macmillan; Picador)
  • Ben Machell, The Unusual Suspect (Canongate)
  • Thomas Morris, The Dublin Railway Murder (Penguin Random House; Harvill Secker)

2021

• Winner: Sue Black, Written in Bone (Doubleday, Penguin). Anatomist and forensic pathologist Sue Black takes us on a tour of the bony body.
  • Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close (William Heinemann, Penguin)
  • Andrew Harding, These Are Not Gentle People (MacLehose)
  • Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus (Profile Books)
  • Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass (Bloomsbury)
  • Ben MacIntyre, Agent Sonya (Viking, Penguin)

2020

• Winner: Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. (William Heinemann). Two intertwined tales: of a preacher in Alabama who apparently killed no fewer than five relatives, and of author Harper Lee’s attempts to make a non-fiction book out of it.
  • Peter Everett, Corrupt Bodies. (Icon Books)
  • Caroline Goode, Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod (Oneworld Publications)
  • Sean O'Connor, The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury (Simon & Schuster)
  • Adam Sisman, The Professor and the Parson (Profile Books)
  • Susannah Stapleton, The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective (Picador)

2010s

2019

• Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor, (Viking). An account of the defection of Oleg Gordievsky.
  • Sue Black, All That Remains (Doubleday)
  • Mikita Brottman, An Unexplained Death (Canongate)
  • Claire Harman, Murder by the Book (Viking)
  • Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief (Hutchinson)
  • Hallie Rubenhold, The Five (Doubleday)

2018

• Thomas Harding, Blood on the Page (William Heinemann). Account of a recent murder of a Hampstead eccentric, and of the subsequent trial in which parts of the evidence were suppressed by government order
  • Piu Eatwell, Black Dahlia Red Rose (Coronet)
  • David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon (Simon & Schuster)
  • Alexandria Mariano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body (Macmillan)
  • T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong, A False Report (Hutchinson)
  • Laura Thompson, Rex v Edith Thompson (Head of Zeus)

2017

• Stephen Purvis, Close but no Cigar: A true story of prison life in Castro's Cuba (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
  • Simon Farquhar, A Dangerous Place (The History Press)
  • Anja Reich-Osang, The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage (Text Publishing)
  • Kate Summerscale, The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (Bloomsbury)
  • A. T. Williams, A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II (Jonathan Cape)
  • Gary Younge, Another Day in the Death of America (Guardian / Faber and Faber)

2016

• Andrew Hankinson, You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] (Scribe)
  • Wensley Clarkson, Sexy Beasts: The Hatton Garden Mob (Quercus)
  • Martin Edwards, The Golden Age of Murder (HarperCollins)
  • Thomas Grant, Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories (John Murray)
  • Luke Harding, A Very Expensive Poison (Faber and Faber)
  • Adam Sisman, John le Carré: The Biography (Bloomsbury)

2015

• Dan Davies, In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile (Quercus). Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal
  • Paul Fischer, A Kim Jong il Production (Penguin)
  • Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic (Bodley Head)
  • Iain Overton, Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of the Gun (Canongate)
  • Ǻsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway (Virago)
  • Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption (Scribe)

2014

• Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark, The Siege (Viking). 2008 Mumbai attacks and the siege at the Taj hotel
  • Kate Colqhoun, Did She Kill Him? (Little, Brown Book Group)
  • Damien Echols, Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row (Atlantic Books)
  • Jeff Guinn, Manson (Simon & Schuster)
  • Samantha Geimer, The Girl (Simon & Schuster)
  • Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police (Faber and Faber)

2013

• Paul French, Midnight in Peking, (Penguin / Viking) The 1937 murder of Pamela Werner in Beijing
  • Highly Commended: Richard Hoskins, The Boy in the River (Pan Macmillan)
  • Mukesh Kapila with Damien Lewis, Against a Tide of Evil (Mainstream)
  • Carol Ann Lee, A Fine Day for a Hanging (Mainstream)
  • Clive Stafford Smith, Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America (Random House)
  • Diana Souhami, Murder at Wrotham Hill (Quercus)

2012

• Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan, The Eleventh Day (Transworld). An account of 9/11
  • Highly Commended: Ben Lopez, The Negotiator (Little, Brown)
  • Leaf Fielding, To Live Outside the Law (Serpent’s Tail)
  • Misha Glenny, Dark Market (Vintage)
  • Gavin Knight, Hood Rat (Pan Macmillan)
  • David Smith with Carol Ann Lee, Witness (Mainstream)

2011

Eligibility: works first published in the UK in English between 1 June 2010 and 31 May 2011. The award became an annual fixture once again, but this year the prize fund was halved to £1000.

• Douglas Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds (Simon & Schuster). The crimes and conviction of the nineteenth-century French serial murderer Joseph Vacher
  • Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder (HarperCollins)
  • Colin Evans, Slaughter on a Snowy Morn (Icon Books)
  • Michael Capuzzo, The Murder Room (Michael Joseph)
  • Kate Colquhoun, Mr Briggs’ Hat (Little, Brown)

2010

Eligibility: works published between June 1, 2008 and May 31, 2010

• Ruth Dudley Edwards, Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing & the Families’ Pursuit of Justice (Harvill Secker). The successful civil case taken against the suspects for the Omagh bombing
  • David Cesarani, Major Farran’s Hat (Heinemann)
  • David R Dow, Killing Time (Heinemann)
  • Jeff Guinn, The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde (Simon & Schuster)
  • Alex McBride, Defending the Guilty (Penguin / Viking)
  • Douglas Preston, with Mario Spezi, The Monster of Florence: A True Story (Virgin / Random House)

2000s

2009

Not awarded as award had become biennial.

2008

• Kester Aspden, Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale (Random House). Death of David Oluwale in Leeds in 1969
  • Francisco Goldman, The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi (Atlantic Books). Death of Juan José Gerardi Conedera in Guatemala in 1998
  • David Rose, Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South (HarperPress). The case of Carlton Gary, sentenced to death in 1986 in Georgia, USA
  • Duncan Staff, The Lost Boy (Bantam Press). Keith Bennett, victim of the Moors Murders, England, 1964
  • Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House (Bloomsbury). Murder in 1860 in Somerset, England, to which Constance Kent confessed
  • Peter Zimonjic, Into the Darkness: 7/7 (Vintage Books). First-hand account of the 7 July 2005 London bombings

2007

Not awarded. It was decided that the award was to become a biennial award.

2006

• Linda Rhodes, Lee Shelden, and Kathryn Abnett, The Dagenham Murder: The Brutal Killing of PC George Clark, 1846 (The Borough of Barking and Dagenham). Murder of policeman George Clark in 1846 in Dagenham, London
  • Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont (Fourth Estate). Boston Strangler murders of 1962-1964 in USA
  • Nuala O'Faolain, The Story of Chicago May (Michael Joseph). Irish-born international criminal Chicago May, born May Duignan
  • Sister Helen Prejean, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (Canterbury Press). Executions of Dobie Gillis Williams (1999) and Joseph O'Dell in USA)
  • William Queen, Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (Mainstream). First-hand account of infiltrating Mongols gang in USA
  • Sue Williams, And Then the Darkness: The Fascinating Story of the Disappearance of Peter Falconio and the Trials of Joanne Lees (John Blake). Disappearance of Peter Falconio in Australia, 2001

2005

• Gregg and Gina Hill, On The Run: a Mafia childhood (Hutchinson). By the children of Henry Hill, American mobster
  • Bella Bathurst, The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks. (HarperCollins). Wrecking off the UK coast
  • Eric Jager, The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France (Century). Trial by combat of Jean de Carrouges, France, 1386
  • Sadakat Kadri, The Trial: a history from Socrates to O. J. Simpson (HarperCollins). History of trials
  • James Owen, A Serpent in Eden: The Greatest Murder Mystery of All Time (Little, Brown). Murder of Harry Oakes in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1943

2004

Joint winners

• John Dickie, Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (Hodder & Stoughton). History of the Sicilian mafia from its 1860s beginnings
• Sarah Wise, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London (Jonathan Cape). The Italian Boy murder, London, 1831
  • Rebecca Gowers, The Swamp of Death: A True Tale of Victorian Lies and Murder (Hamish Hamilton). Reginald Birchall, a young Englishman who set off for Canada in 1890 and was found dead in a swamp shortly after arriving
  • Steve Holland, The Trials of Hank Janson (Telos Publishing). Censorship of crime writer Hank Janson in 1940s Britain
  • Mende Nazer and Damian Lewis, Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and her Fight for Survival (Time Warner). Mende Nazer's own story

2003

• Samantha Weinberg, Pointing from the Grave: a True Story of Murder and DNA (Hamish Hamilton). Murder of Helena Greenwood in 1985 in California and early use of DNA profiling to identify her killer 15 years later
  • Michael Bilton, Wicked Beyond Belief: the Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (HarperCollins). Peter Sutcliffe, serial killer convicted in 1981
  • Erik Larson, Devil In The White City:Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Doubleday). Serial killer H. H. Holmes and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, USA
  • Chandak Sengoopta, Imprint of the Raj: the Colonial Origin of Fingerprinting and its Voyage to Britain (Macmillan). The science of fingerprinting, developed in India and first used in court in England in 1902
  • Donald Thomas, An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War (John Murray). Events in Britain during World War II
  • Peter Walsh, Gang War: the Inside Story of the Manchester Gangs (Milo Books). Contemporary gangs in Manchester

2002

• Lillian Pizzichini, Dead Man's Wages: the secrets of a London conman and his family (Picador). Life of conman Charlie Taylor, the author's grandfather
  • Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt, His Lives (Macmillan). Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian
  • Don Hale (with Marika Huns & Hamish McGregor), Town Without Pity: the Fight to Clear Stephen Downing of the Bakewell Murder (Century). (Stephen Downing, jailed for murder in 1974, conviction overturned in 2002)
  • Special mention: Julian Earwaker & Kathleen Becker, Scene of the Crime: a Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction^{Judged to be outside the scope of the award but worthy of commendation} (Aurum)

2001

• Philip Etienne and Martin Maynard (with Tony Thompson), The Infiltrators: the First Inside Account of Life Deep Undercover with Scotland Yard's Most Secret Unit (Penguin). Two members of SO10, the Metropolitan Police's undercover unit
  • Zacaria Erzinçlioglu, Maggots, Murder and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist (Harley Books). Forensic entomology
  • Adrian Weale, Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason (Viking Press). (Roger Casement and John Amery, the only Britons to be executed for high treason in the 20th century)

2000

• Edward Bunker, Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade (No Exit Press). The author's own story of a life of crime
  • Tony Barnes, Richard Elias and Peter Walsh, Cocky (Milo Books)
  • Andrew Motion, Wainewright the Poisoner (Faber and Faber)
  • Tony Thompson, Bloggs 19 (Warner Books)
  • Errol Trzebinski, The Life and Death of Lord Errol (Fourth Estate)

1990s

1999

Eligibility: works published in the UK in English between 16 October 1998 and 15 September 1999.  It carried a prize of £2,000. The 1999 Non-Fiction Judges were: Brian Innes (chairman), Robert Church, Professor Bernard Knight, Joan Lock, Kathryn J Skoyles.

• Brian Cathcart, The Case of Stephen Lawrence (Viking)
  • Martin Booth, The Dragon Syndicates (Doubleday)
  • Stuart S. Kind, The Sceptical Witness (Hodology Ltd., distributed by The Forensic Science Society)

1998

• Gitta Sereny, Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill - The Story of Mary Bell

1997

• Paul Britton, The Jigsaw Man (The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist)

1996

• Antonia Fraser, The Gunpowder Plot

1995

• Martin Beales, Dead Not Buried

1994

• David Canter, Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer

1993

• Alexandra Artley, Murder in the Heart

1992

• Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning

1991

• John Bossy, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair

1990

• Jonathan Goodman, The Passing of Starr Faithfull

1980s

1989

• Robert Lindsey, A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit

1988

• Bernard Wasserstein, The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln

1987

• Bernard Taylor/Stephen Knight, Perfect Murder

1986

• John Bryson, Evil Angels

1985

• Brian Masters, Killing for Company

1984

• David Yallop, In God's Name

1983

• Peter Watson, Double Dealer: How Five Art Dealers, Four Policemen, Three Picture Restorers, Two Auction Houses and a Journalist Plotted to Recover Some of the World's Most Beautiful Stolen Paintings

1982

• John Cornwell, Earth to Earth

1981

• Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

1980

• Anthony Summers, Conspiracy

1970s

1979

• Shirley Green, Rachman

1978

• Audrey Williamson, The Mystery of the Princes

External links

• CWA website: The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction