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A biography of John Donne - law student, sea adventurer, member of Parliament, priest and perhaps the greatest love poet in English. Katherine Rundell follows him from his Catholic upbringing and his conversion, through his imprisonment for a secret marriage, to his fame as Dean of St Paul's.

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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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