Orwell prize
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The Orwell Youth Prize encourages school students to express themselves politically – but what helps and hinders teachers when shaping our citizens?
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Johnny Hornby on WPP succession, City AM’s Christian May gets his girl and kickstarting Jacquie Lawrence’s drama
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Finalists for political writing award include books about Islamic militancy, the Egyptian revolution and the aftermath of the Iraq war
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The author of the Orwell prize-shortlisted The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited describes how she uncovered the fear, forgetting and self-censorship of those involved in the massacre of 1989
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Reporter recognised for his coverage of the crises across the Arab world and the rise of the Islamic State
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Private Island, his study of how the growth of privatisation has affected the UK, ‘more than passes the Orwell test of political writing as art’
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Get to know the contenders for Britain’s leading political writing award, ranging from India to China and the UK, and taking in reportage, history and biography
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Search for ‘the real Savile’ lines up alongside life of Roy Jenkins and Nick Davies’ account of the phone hacking scandal
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Reading group: The millions of people using the term seem confident that they know – and use it with equal confidence to signify often diametrically opposed meanings
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Former home secretary Alan Johnson is that rare thing: a genuinely popular Westminster figure. He has now won two major awards for his first memoir, and there's more to come, he tells Mark Lawson
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Three journalists also nominated for books prize
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From Moscow to Grantham and from Beijing to Guantánamo Bay, the longlist for the 2014 Orwell prize runs the gamut from lost childhood to gender divisions. Take a look at the 14 titles in the running
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Three journalists also named on books long list
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Peter Preston: Suzanne Moore leads a phalanx of angry women with a lot to say about the flood of abuse cases, but men have signally failed to rise to the challenge
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Work of journalist killed last year in Syria lines up with finalists for UK's leading prize in political writing
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Gallery: The books longlisted for the 2013 Orwell prize for political writing span the globe from Basra to Miami and from the far right to the frontiers of medical research
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Celebration of author's enduring influence marked with radio season and essay giveaway
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Jean Seaton: Though blogging at its best can provide an insightful view from the outside, it has now been subsumed into the mainstream
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The Orwell prize gets Hitched
Richard SeymourRichard Seymour: There were two sides to Christopher Hitchens, and I fear it is the mean-spirited one that has been honoured with an Orwell prize
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Robert McCrum: As the fuss surrounding the Pulitzer and Orwell prizes shows, book awards are increasingly more about hype than substance
Books blog My most memorable Orwell moment? Getting Nineteen Eighty-Four into Guantanámo Bay