CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction is a British literary award established in 1978 by the Crime Writers' Association, who have awarded the Gold Dagger fiction award since 1955.

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. As of 2023 it is called the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction.[1] The prize is now a cheque for £1,000 and a decorative dagger.

Winners and shortlists

2020s

2023

  • Winner: Wendy Joseph, Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey[2]
    • Stephen Bates, The Poisonous Solicitor[3]
    • Martin Edwards, The Life of Crime
    • Amit Katwala, Tremors In The Blood
    • Julie Mackay & Robert Murphy, To Hunt a Killer
    • David Whitehouse, About A Son

2022

  • Winner: Julia Laite, The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice[4]
    • Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne, The Devil You Know[5]
    • Julie Kavanagh, The Irish Assassins
    • Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain
    • Ben Machell, The Unusual Suspect
    • Thomas Morris, The Dublin Railway Murder

2021

  • Winner: Sue Black, Written in Bone
    • Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close
    • Andrew Harding, These Are Not Gentle People
    • Debora Harding, Dancing with the Octopus
    • Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass
    • Ben MacIntyre, Agent Sonya

2020

  • Winner: Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee[6]
    • Peter Everett, Corrupt Bodies[7]
    • Caroline Goode, Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod
    • Sean O'Connor, The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury
    • Adam Sisman, The Professor and the Parson
    • Susannah Stapleton, The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective

2010s

Winners

2019 [8]

2018 [9]

2017[10]
  • Stephen Purvis, Close but no Cigar, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Close but no Cigar: a true story of prison life in Castro's Cuba).

2016 [11]

  • Andrew Hankinson, You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat], Scribe

2015 [12]

  • Dan Davies, In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile, Quercus
2014 [13]
2013[14]

2012 [15]

2011[16]
  • Douglas Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds (The crimes and conviction of the nineteenth-century French serial murderer Joseph Vacher)
2010[17]
  • Ruth Dudley Edwards, Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing & the Families’ Pursuit of Justice (The successful civil case taken against the suspects for the Omagh bombing)

2000s

2008[18][19]
  • Kester Aspden, Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale (Death of David Oluwale in Leeds in 1969)
2006[20]
2005[21]
  • Gregg and Gina Hill, On The Run: a Mafia childhood (By the children of Henry Hill, American mobster)
    • Bella Bathurst, The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks. (Wrecking off the UK coast)
    • Eric Jager, The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France (Trial by combat of Jean de Carrouges, France, 1386)
    • Sadakat Kadri, The Trial: a history from Socrates to O. J. Simpson (History of trials).
    • James Owen, A Serpent in Eden: The Greatest Murder Mystery of All Time (Murder of Harry Oakes in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1943)
2004[22]

Joint winners

  • John Dickie, Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (History of the Sicilian mafia from its 1860s beginnings)
  • Sarah Wise, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London (The Italian Boy murder, London, 1831)
    • Rebecca Gowers, The Swamp of Death: A True Tale of Victorian Lies and Murder (Reginald Birchall, a young Englishman who set off for Canada in 1890 and was found dead in a swamp shortly after arriving)
    • Steve Holland, The Trials of Hank Janson (Censorship of crime writer Hank Janson in 1940s Britain)
    • Mende Nazer and Damian Lewis, Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and her Fight for Survival (Mende Nazer's own story)
2003[23]
2002[24]
  • Lillian Pizzichini, Dead Man's Wages: the secrets of a London conman and his family (Life of conman Charlie Taylor, the author's grandfather)
    • Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt, His Lives (Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), British spy and art historian)
    • Don Hale (with Marika Huns & Hamish McGregor), Town Without Pity: the Fight to Clear Stephen Downing of the Bakewell Murder (Stephen Downing, jailed for murder in 1974, conviction overturned in 2002)
    • Special mention: Julian Earwaker & 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
2001[25]
  • Philip Etienne and Martin Maynard (with Tony Thompson), The Infiltrators: the First Inside Account of Life Deep Undercover with Scotland Yard's Most Secret Unit (Two members of SO10, the Metropolitan Police's undercover unit)
    • Zacaria Erzinçlioglu, Maggots, Murder and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist (Forensic entomology)
    • Adrian Weale, Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason (Roger Casement and John Amery, the only Britons to be executed for high treason in the 20th century)
2000[26]
  • Edward Bunker, Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade (The author's own story of a life of crime)

1990s

1999
1998
  • Gitta Sereny, Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill - The Story of Mary Bell
1997
  • Paul Britton, The Jigsaw Man (The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist)
1996
1995
  • Martin Beales, Dead Not Buried
1994
1993
  • Alexandra Artley, Murder in the Heart
1992
1991
1990
  • Jonathan Goodman, The Passing of Starr Faithfull

1980s

1989
  • Robert Lindsey, A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
  • Peter Watson, 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
1982
1981
1980

1970s

1979
  • Shirley Green, Rachman
1978

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