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Samuel Johnson award breaks the mould.(Brief Article)
From: M2 Best Books
Date: 20040319
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Britain's Samuel Johnson award for non-fiction has broken with an unspoken tradition and selected a long list containing fewer war books and biographies than ever before.
The GBP30,000 prize has been won by books on the first or second world wars, or a biography since 1999. The 2004 longlist includes only one war book and three biographies out of the twenty three selected titles.
This year's selection is marked by a move towards travel, history and off-the-wall best sellers, including Lynne Truss's hit, 'Eats, Shoots ...
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