| 2026 | Winner | The Escape From Kabul | Karen Bartlett | Unknown |
| 2026 | Shortlist | For the Sun After Long Nights | Nilo Tabrizy, Fatemeh Jamalpour | Atlantic Books |
| 2026 | Shortlist | Israel: What Went Wrong? | Omer Bartov | Unknown |
| 2026 | Shortlist | Shattered Lands | Sam Dalrymple | HarperCollins |
| 2026 | Shortlist | Stalin's Apostles | Antonia Senior | Unknown |
| 2026 | Shortlist | The Elements of Power | Nicolas Niarchos | HarperCollins |
| 2026 | Shortlist | The Wall Dancers | Yi-Ling Liu | Unknown |
| 2026 | Shortlist | Three Years on Fire | Andrey Kurkov | Unknown |
| 2025 | Winner | Looking at Women, Looking at War | Victoria Amelina | St. Martin's Press |
| 2025 | Shortlist | At the Edge of Empire | Edward Wong | Profile Books |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Autocracy Inc. | Anne Applebaum | Penguin Books |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Broken Threads | Mishal Husain | HarperCollins |
| 2025 | Shortlist | The Baton and The Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin | Lucy Ash | Icon Books |
| 2025 | Shortlist | The Coming Storm: A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine | Gabriel Gatehouse | Random House |
| 2025 | Shortlist | The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege | Simon Parkin | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2025 | Shortlist | The World of the Cold War: 1945–1991 | Vladislav Zubok | Random House |
| 2024 | Winner | The Picnic | Matthew Longo | W. W. Norton |
| 2024 | Shortlist | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy | Nathan Thrall | Metropolitan Books |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution | Cat Bohannon | Knopf |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival | Daniel Finkelstein | HarperCollins |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence | Yaroslav Trofimov | Penguin Press |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain | Jason Okundaye | Faber & Faber |
| 2024 | Shortlist | The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq | Steve Coll | Penguin Press |
| 2024 | Shortlist | The Incarcerations | Alpa Shah | HarperCollins |
| 2024 | Shortlist | We Are Free to Change the World | Lyndsey Stonebridge | Vintage Books |
| 2023 | Winner | Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen | Peter Apps | Oneworld |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare | Annabel Sowemimo | Profile Books |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Fire of the Dragon: China's New Cold War | Ian Williams | Birlinn |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth | John McManus | Unknown |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival | Luke Harding | Faber & Faber |
| 2023 | Shortlist | The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy | Philippe Sands | Orion |
| 2023 | Shortlist | The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule | Angela Saini | Fourth Estate |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children | Hannah Barnes | Swift Press |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Who Cares?: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It | Emily Kenway | Basic Books |
| 2022 | Winner | My Fourth Time We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route | Sally Hayden | Melville House |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Behind Closed Doors | Polly Curtis | Virago |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad | Michela Wrong | HarperCollins |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Orwell’s Roses | Rebecca Solnit | Viking |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy | Adam Tooze | Viking |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story | Jeremy Farrar, Anjana Ahuja | Unknown |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Dawn of Everything | David Graeber, David Wengrow | Unknown |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Right To Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century | Amia Srinivasan | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Things I Have Withheld | Kei Miller | Canongate |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire | Kojo Koram | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2021 | Winner | Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia | Joshua Yaffa | Crown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | African Europeans: An Untold History | Olivette Otele | Basic Books |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet through the People of One Town | Barbara Demick | Granta Books |
| 2021 | Shortlist | English Pastoral: An Inheritance | James Rebanks | Penguin Books |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care | Madeleine Bunting | Granta Books |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women | Christina Lamb | HarperCollins |
| 2021 | Shortlist | The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery | Michael Taylor | Random House |
| 2020 | Winner | Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me | Kate Clanchy | Pan Macmillan |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War | Tim Bouverie | Vintage Books |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado-Perez | Chatto & Windus |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Margaret Thatcher--Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography Vol. 3 | Charles Moore | Knopf |
| 2020 | Shortlist | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power | Shoshana Zuboff | PublicAffairs |
| 2020 | Shortlist | The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment | Amelia Gentleman | Faber & Faber |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Underland: A Deep Time Journey | Robert Macfarlane | W. W. Norton |
| 2019 | Winner | Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland | Patrick Radden Keefe | William Collins |
| 2019 | Shortlist | Heimat: A German Family Album | Nora Krug | Penguin Books |
| 2019 | Shortlist | Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back | Oliver Bullough | Unknown |
| 2019 | Shortlist | Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas | Alpa Shah | University of Chicago Press |
| 2019 | Shortlist | The Growth Delusion: The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations | David Pilling | Bloomsbury |
| 2019 | Shortlist | The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border | Francisco Cantú | Riverhead Books |