CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

• Name — CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction • Awarded For — Best non-fiction work on a crime-related theme • Date — 2023 07 06 • Country — United Kingdom • Presenter — Crime Writers' Association (CWA) • Website — thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/alcs-gold-dagger-for-non-fiction/ The CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction also called the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction is a British literary award established in 1978 by the Crime Writers' Association, who have awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for fiction since 1955. It is sponsored by the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, and is open to "any non-fiction work on a crime-related theme by an author of any nationality as long as the book was first published in the UK in English during the judging period." The prize is a cheque for £1,000 (reduced in 2009 from £2,000) and a decorative dagger. In 1978 and 1979 only there was also a silver award. From 1995 to 2002 it was sponsored by The Macallan (Scotch whisky brand) and known as The Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. In 2008 the award was sponsored by Owatonna Media (a London-based literary brand investor and owner). Between 2006 and 2010 it was awarded every other year, in even-numbered years, but in 2011 it returned as an annual award.

Award winners and shortlists • Year — Author — Title — Publisher — Result — References • 1978 — Harry — ' — Winner (joint) • 1978 — Audrey — ' — Winner (joint) • 1979 — Jon and Douglas Sutherland — Fraud — Winner (joint) • 1979 — Shirley — Rachman — Winner (joint) • 1980 — Anthony and Robbyn Swan — Conspiracy — Winner • 1981 — Jacobo — Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number — Winner • 1982 — John — Earth to Earth — Winner • 1983 — Peter — Double Dealer: How Five Art Dealers, Four Policemen, Three Picture Restorers, Two Auction Houses and a Journalist Plotted to Recover Some of the World's Most Beautiful Stolen Paintings — Winner • 1984 — David — In God's Name — Winner • 1985 — Brian — Killing for Company — Winner • 1986 — John — Evil Angels — Winner • 1987 — Bernard and Stephen Knight — Perfect Murder — Winner • 1988 — Bernard — ' — Winner • 1989 — Robert — ' — Winner • 1990 — Jonathan — ' — Winner • 1991 — John — Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair — Winner • 1992 — Charles — Winner • 1993 — Alexandra — Murder in the Heart — Winner • 1994 — David — Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer — Winner • 1995 — Martin — Dead Not Buried — Winner • 1996 — Antonia — Winner • 1997 — Paul — ' — Winner • 1998 — Gitta — Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill - The Story of Mary Bell — Winner • 1999 — Brian — ' — Viking — Winner • Martin — ' — Doubleday — Shortlist • Stuart S. — ' — Hodology Ltd. — Shortlist • 2000 — Edward — Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade — No Exit Press — Winner • Andrew — Wainewright the Poisoner — Faber and Faber — Shortlist • Errol — ' — Fourth Estate — Shortlist • Tony — Richard Elias and Peter Walsh, Cocky — Milo Books — Shortlist • Tony — Bloggs 19 — Warner Books — Shortlist • 2001 — Philip and Martin Maynard, with Tony Thompson — ' — Penguin — Winner • Adrian — Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason — Viking Press — Shortlist • Zacaria — Maggots, Murder and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist — Harley Books — Shortlist • 2002 — Lillian — Dead Man's Wages: The Secrets of a London Conman and His Family — Picador — Winner • Julian and Kathleen Becker — Scene of the Crime: a Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective FictionJudged to be outside the scope of the award but worthy of commendation — Aurum — Special mention • Don, with Marika Huns and Hamish McGregor — Town Without Pity: the Fight to Clear Stephen Downing of the Bakewell Murder — Century — Shortlist • Miranda — Anthony Blunt, His Lives — Macmillan — Shortlist • 2003 — Samantha — Pointing from the Grave: a True Story of Murder and DNA — Hamish Hamilton — Winner • Chandak — Imprint of the Raj: the Colonial Origin of Fingerprinting and its Voyage to Britain — Macmillan — Shortlist • Donald — ' — John Murray — Shortlist • Erik — Doubleday — Shortlist • Michael — Wicked Beyond Belief: the Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper — HarperCollins — Shortlist • Peter — Gang War: the Inside Story of the Manchester Gangs — Milo Books — Shortlist • 2004 — John — Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia — Hodder & Stoughton — Winner • Sarah — ' — Jonathan Cape — Winner • Mende and Damian Lewis — Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and her Fight for Survival — Time Warner — Shortlist • Rebecca — ' — Hamish Hamilton — Shortlist • Steve — ' — Telos Publishing — Shortlist • 2005 — Gregg and Gina — On The Run: a Mafia childhood — Hutchinson — Winner • Bella — ' — HarperCollins — Shortlist • Eric — Century — Shortlist • James — ' — Little, Brown — Shortlist • Sadakat — ' — HarperCollins — Shortlist • 2006 — Linda, Lee Sheldon, and Kathryn Abnet — (The Borough of Barking and Dagenham) — Winner • Nuala — ' — Michael Joseph — Shortlist • Sebastian — Fourth Estate — Shortlist • Sister Helen — ' — Canterbury Press — Shortlist • Sue — And Then the Darkness: The Fascinating Story of the Disappearance of Peter Falconio and the Trials of Joanne Lees — John Blake — Shortlist • William — Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang — Mainstream — Shortlist • 2007 — Not awarded. It was decided that the award was to become a biennial award. • 2008 — Kester — Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale — Random House — Winner • David — Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South — HarperPress — Shortlist • Duncan — ' — Bantam Press — Shortlist • Francisco — ' — Atlantic Books — Shortlist • Kate — ' — Bloomsbury — Shortlist • Peter — Into the Darkness: 7/7 — Vintage Books — Shortlist • 2009 — Not awarded as award had become biennial. • 2010 — Ruth Dudley — Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing & the Families' Pursuit of Justice — Harvill Secker — Winner • Alex — Defending the Guilty — Penguin / Viking — Shortlist • David R. — Killing Time — Heinemann — Shortlist • David — Major Farran's Hat — Heinemann — Shortlist • Douglas, with Mario Spezi — Virgin / Random House — Shortlist • Jeff — ' — Simon & Schuster — Shortlist • 2011 — Douglas — ' — Simon & Schuster — Winner • Colin — Slaughter on a Snowy Morn — Icon Books — Shortlist • Judith — ' — HarperCollins — Shortlist • Kate — Mr Briggs' Hat — Little, Brown — Shortlist • Michael — ' — Michael Joseph — Shortlist • 2012 — Anthony and Robbyn Swan — ' — Transworld — Winner • Ben — ' — Little, Brown — Highly commended • David with Carol Ann Lee — Witness — Mainstream — Shortlist • Gavin — Hood Rat — Pan Macmillan — Shortlist • Leaf — To Live Outside the Law — Serpent's Tail — Shortlist • Misha — Dark Market — Vintage — Shortlist • 2013 — Paul — Midnight in Peking — Penguin / Viking — Winner • Richard — Pan Macmillan — Highly commended • Carol Ann — ' — Mainstream — Shortlist • Clive Stafford — Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America — Random House — Shortlist • Diana — Murder at Wrotham Hill — Quercus — Shortlist • Mukesh with Damien Lewis — Against a Tide of Evil — Mainstream — Shortlist • 2014 — Adrian and Cathy Scott-Clark — ' — Viking — Winner • Damien — Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row — Atlantic Books — Shortlist • Jeff — Manson — Simon & Schuster — Shortlist • Kate — Did She Kill Him? — Little, Brown Book Group — Shortlist • Paul and Rob Evans — Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police — Faber and Faber — Shortlist • Samantha — ' — Simon & Schuster — Shortlist • 2015 — Dan — In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile — Quercus — Winner • Ǻsne — One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway — Virago — Shortlist • Bryan — Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption — Scribe — Shortlist • Iain — Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of the Gun — Canongate — Shortlist • Jill — Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic — Bodley Head — Shortlist • Paul — ' — Penguin — Shortlist • 2016 — Andrew — You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] — Scribe — Winner • Adam — John le Carré: The Biography — Bloomsbury — Shortlist • Luke — ' — Faber and Faber — Shortlist • Martin — HarperCollins — Shortlist • Thomas — Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories — John Murray — Shortlist • Wensley — Sexy Beasts: The Hatton Garden Mob — Quercus — Shortlist • 2017 — Stephen — Close but No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba — Weidenfeld & Nicolson — Winner • A. T. — ' — Jonathan Cape — Shortlist • Anja — ' — Text Publishing — Shortlist • Gary — Another Day in the Death of America — Guardian / Faber and Faber — Shortlist • Kate — Bloomsbury — Shortlist • Simon — ' — The History Press — Shortlist • 2018 — Thomas — Blood on the Page — William Heinemann — Winner • Alexandria — ' — Macmillan — Shortlist • David — Killers of the Flower Moon — Simon & Schuster — Shortlist • Laura — Rex v Edith Thompson — Head of Zeus — Shortlist • Piu — Black Dahlia Red Rose — Coronet — Shortlist • T. Christian and Ken Armstrong — Hutchinson — Shortlist • 2019 — Ben — Viking — Winner • Claire — Murder by the Book — Viking — Shortlist • Hallie — ' — Doubleday — Shortlist • Kirk Wallace — ' — Hutchinson — Shortlist • Mikita — Canongate — Shortlist • Sue — All That Remains — Doubleday — Shortlist • 2020 — Casey — Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee — William Heinemann — Winner • Adam — Profile Books — Shortlist • Caroline — Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod — Oneworld Publications — Shortlist • Peter — Corrupt Bodies — Icon Books — Shortlist • Sean — Simon & Schuster — Shortlist • Susannah — Picador — Shortlist • 2021 — Sue — Written in Bone — Doubleday, Penguin — Winner • Andrew — These Are Not Gentle People — MacLehose — Shortlist • Becky — We Keep the Dead Close — William Heinemann, Penguin — Shortlist • Ben — Agent Sonya — Viking, Penguin — Shortlist • Debora — Dancing with the Octopus — Profile Books — Shortlist • Nick — Bloomsbury — Shortlist • 2022 — Julia — Profile Books — Winner • Ben — Canongate — Shortlist • Gwen — Faber and Faber — Shortlist • Julie — Atlantic Books; Grove Press UK — Shortlist • Patrick — Empire of Pain — Pan Macmillan; Picador — Shortlist • Thomas — Penguin Random House; Harvill Secker — Shortlist • 2023 — Wendy — Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey — Transworld — Winner • Amit — Tremors in the Blood — HarperCollins — Shortlist • David — About a Son — Orion Publishing Group — Shortlist • Julie — To Hunt a Killer — HarperCollins — Shortlist • Martin — HarperCollins — Shortlist • Stephen — Icon Books — Shortlist • 2024 — Nicholas — Ian Fleming: The Complete Man — Vintage — Winner • Michael — Simon & Schuster — Shortlist • Matt with John Murray — No Ordinary Day — Ad Lib Publishers — Shortlist • Jennifer with Douglas Thompson — Devil’s Coin — Ad Lib Publishers — Shortlist • Alex — Seventy Times Seven — Bedford Square Publishers — Shortlist • Jennifer and Keina Yoshida — How Many More Women? — Endeavor — Shortlist • 2025 — Kate Summerscale — The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place — Bloomsbury — Winner • Duncan Harding — The Criminal Mind — Penguin - Michael Joseph — Shortlist • Henry Hemming — Four Shots in the Night — Quercus — Shortlist • Jeremy Craddock — The Lady in the Lake — Mirror Books — Shortlist • John Grisham and Jim McCloskey — Framed — Hodder & Stoughton — Shortlist • Jonathan Coffey and Judith Moritz — Unmasking Lucy Letby — Orion Publishing Group - Seven Dials — Shortlist