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The Orwell Prize 2009 - Longlist books/journalism/blogsWell as a kind of antidote to the occasional ill-informed comment/attack what better way to counter-act it than some of the top rated political books on a range of mostly global ideas and the political realities behind them.
http://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/the-award/long-books.aspx
18 books are still in the running for The Orwell Prize 2009 - the Shortlist is announced on the 25th of March, with the prizes awarded on the 22nd April.
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Andrew Brown Fishing in Utopia: Sweden & The Future That Disappeared
Patrick Cockburn Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq
Nick Davies Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Eva Figes Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land
Matthew Green The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted
Diarmuid Jeffreys IG Farben and the Making of Hitlers War Machine
Tony Judt Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Hatim Kanaaneh A Doctor in Galilee: The Story and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel
Sara Maitland A Book of Silence
Owen Matthews Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
Mark Mazower Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
Hsiao-Hung Pai Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour
Ahmed Rashid Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
David Runciman Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond
Philippe Sands Torture Team: Uncovering war crimes in the land of the free
Jeremy Seabrook The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny
Mark Thompson The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1918
A. N. Wilson Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II
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I think someone has a sense of humour in the blogs section - as Tom Harris the Labour MP gets a listing...
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