The 2007 shortlist of six books was made from this original longlist of 20 non-fiction titles:
Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma (Atlantic Books)
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury)
The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Transworld)
Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi (Rider)
Irish Freedom by Richard English (Pan Macmillan)
City of Laughter by Vic Gatrell (Atlantic Books)
Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessey (Allen Lane)
Daughter of the Desert by Georgina Howell (Pan Macmillan)
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee (Chatto and Windus)
The Man Who Went into the West by Byron Rogers (Aurum Press)
Stuff by Martin Rowson (Jonathan Cape)
Fatal Purity by Ruth Scurr (Chatto and Windus)
Occupational Hazards by Rory Stewart (Pan Macmillan)
Brainwash by Dominic Streatfeild (Hodder and Stoughton)
Nabeel's Song by Jo Tatchell (Sceptre Books)
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin (Penguin)
The Verneys by Adrian Tinniswood (Jonathan Cape)
Clever Girl, A Sentimental Education by Brian Thompson (Atlantic Books)
Nature's Engraver by Jenny Uglow (Faber & Faber)
