Samuel Johnson Prize longlist revealed.

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The 20-book longlist for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction has been announced.

Competing for an award this year are a wide range of non-fiction titles including biographies and books on travel and gardening.

Some of the nominees are 'Will in the World' by Stephen Greenblatt (Jonathan Cape), 'Leonardo da Vinci' by Charles Nicholl (Penguin Allen Lane), 'Istanbul' by Orhan Pamuk (Faber and Faber), 'A Little History of British Gardening' by Jenny Uglow (Chatto & Windus) and 'Mutants' by Armand Marie Leroi ...

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