The shortlist of the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist has been announced, whittling the sixteen titles on the longlist down to a shortlist of six.
The 2025 shortlist is as follows:
- Neneh Cherry - A Thousand Threads
- Rachel Clarke - The Story of a Heart
- Chloe Dalton - Raising Hare
- Clare Mulley - Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
- Helen Scales - What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
- Yuan Yang - Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in New China
To be honest, I am pretty unexcited by this shortlist. Other than Clare Mulley's Agent Zo, all the books on this year's longlist that interested me have fallen by the wayside. Sorry that Alexis Wright's Tracker didn't make the cut as it would be great for her work to be more widely known.
The winner of the £30,000 prize will be revealed on 12 June 2025. Happy reading!
Want more? Here is the video of the shortlist announcement.