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Anna Funder talks to East Germans on both sides of the Stasi, the state security service that spied on its own people - among them a mother separated from her sick baby by the building of the Wall, and former officers still loyal to the regime - to understand what it was like to live in a country where anyone might be an informer.

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Winners)
The Baillie Gifford Prize is the UK’s leading award for non-fiction, open to books in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography and the arts. Founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, its winners run from Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain. This list collects the winning books by year.

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