Patrick Radden Keefe shortlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize

Patrick Radden Keefe has been shortlisted for the 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his book ‘London Falling’. The work investigates the death of Zac Brettler, a British teenager who died after falling from a luxury London apartment while posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch.

Keefe, who previously won the prize in 2021 for ‘Empire of Pain’, is part of a six-book shortlist. Other nominees include Andrea Wulf for ‘The Traveller’, which follows the life of naturalist George Forster; Nicholas Boggs for ‘Baldwin’, a biography of writer James Baldwin; Matthew Sweet for ‘The Great Dictator’, a study of novelist Barbara Cartland; Edmund Richardson for ‘Alexander’, a biography of Alexander the Great; and Anand Gopal for ‘Days of Love and Rage’, which covers the 2011 revolution in Manbij, Syria.

The winner will be announced on 4 November and will receive £50,000.