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28th Mar 2012 from Twitlonger
Orwell Prize 2012 Longlists Announced
Book Prize
The longlisted books are:
Rodric Braithwaite Afgansty (Profile Books)
Sherard Cowper-Cowles Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign (HarperPress)
Siddhartha Deb The Beautiful and the Damned: A portrait of the New India (Penguin)
Misha Glenny Dark Market: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You (Vintage)
Robin Harris The Conservatives: A History (Transworld Publishers)
Toby Harnden Dead Men Risen (Quercus)
Christopher Hitchens Arguably (Atlantic books)
Gavin Knight Hood Rat (Picador)
Anatol Lieven Pakistan: A hard country (Penguin)
Richard Lloyd Parry People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman (Jonathan Cape)
Julia Lovell The Opium War (Pan Macmillan)
Caroline Moorehead A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival (Vintage)
Douglas Murray Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and The Saville Inquiry (Biteback publishing)
Sonia Purnell Just Boris: The Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity
Jeffrey Sachs The Price of Civilization (Vintage)
Lucy Siegle To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World (HarperPress)
Christopher Turner Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex (HarperPress)
Conor Woodman Unfair Trade (Hutchinson)
Journalism Prize
The longlisted journalists are:
Camilla Cavendish The Times
Edward Docx Prospect Magazine; The Guardian
Daniel Finkelstein The Times
Amelia Gentleman The Guardian
Simon Kuper Financial Times
Paul Lewis The Guardian; Twitter
Peter Oborne Daily Telegraph; The Spectator; Channel 4 Dispatches
Fintan O’Toole The Irish Times; openDemocracy
Steve Richards The Independent
David James Smith The Sunday Times
David Usborne The Independent
Zoe Williams The Guardian
Blog Prize
The longlisted bloggers are:
Alex Massie Alex Massie (www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie)
Anna Chen Madam Miaow Says (http://madammiaow.blogspot.com/)
Bagehot Bagehot’s Notebook (http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot)
Ms Baroque Baroque in Hackney (http://baroqueinhackney.com)
BendyGirl Benefit Scrounging Scum (http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.com/)
David Allen Green Jack of Kent (http://jackofkent.blogspot.com)
Gavin Kelly Economics and the reality of the ‘squeezed middle’ (http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/gavin-kelly)
John Rentoul Independent Blogs (http://blogs.independent.co.uk/author/johnrentoul/)
Lisa Ansell Lisa Ansell (lisaansell.posterous.com)
Pavel Konnolsky The Konnolsky Files (http://konnolsky.tumblr.com)
Polly Curtis Reality Check with Polly Curtis (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis)
Mick Fealty Slugger O’Toole (sluggerotoole.com)
Raph Shirley Another stupid human (www.raphshirley.com/blog/)
Rangers Tax-Case Rangers Tax-Case (http://www.rangerstaxcase.com)
Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi (http://rebeccaomonira.wordpress.com)
Tim Marshall Foreign Matters (http://blogs.news.sky.com/foreignmatters)
Toby Young Telegraph Blogs (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/tobyyoung/)
Wiggy Beneath the Wig (http://beneaththewig.com/)