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To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a shortlisted book. This week we dive into Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (@faberbooks.bsky.social). 🧵
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February 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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duffcooperprize.bsky.social Duff Cooper Prize @duffcooperprize.bsky.social · Feb 14
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re raising a glass to THE SCAPEGOAT: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (@4thestatebooks.bsky.social) 🧵
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Book on a table with caption: The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 Shortlist. The book is THE SCAPEGOAT: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
February 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400 – 1750 by Noel Malcolm (Oxford University Press). 🧵
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Book on a table with caption: The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 Shortlist. The book is Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400 - 1750
February 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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🐈 wondering whether all #DuffCooperPrize shortlisted books have treats between the pages.
January 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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duffcooperprize.bsky.social Duff Cooper Prize @duffcooperprize.bsky.social · Jan 23
We are proud to announce the shortlist for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025.

The Prize celebrates the best in non-fiction writing with a £5,000 Prize and a Magnum of Pol Roger Brut Réserve being awarded to the winner.

Congratulations to all shortlisted authors!
The six books shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025. Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy Mark Gilbert (Allen Lane) Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World Kathryn Hughes (Fourth Estate) The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Fourth Estate) Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400-1750 Noel Malcolm (OUP) Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux (Faber) Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science & Religion Michael Taylor (Bodley Head)
January 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM