2024 Book Award Non-Fiction Shortlist

Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2024 Book Award Non-Fiction Shortlist, shown in random order!

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Lowell Baier for "Earth's Emergency Room: Saving Species as the Planet and Politics Get Hotter"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Lowell E. Baier’s intellectual curiosity during his 60-year career has taken him from a practicing attorney, to an entrepreneur, a tireless advocate for natural resources and wildlife conservation, and a legal and environmental historian and author. Baier received his B.A. in economics and political

Jill Culiner for "Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Born in New York, and raised in Toronto, Jill Culiner, writer, social critical artist, and photographer has spent most of her life in France, England, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Holland, and North Africa. Her photographic exhibition about the First and Second World Wars, La Mémoire Effacée, toured

Lubna Samara for "BEYOND POTENTIAL: The Complete Wellbeing Guide to Boost Performance and Success at Work"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Lubna Samara, BSc, MBA, is a Leadership Coach and Healer, and founder of HigherWill, an award-winning leadership and coaching company. Drawing on over 25 years of experience, Lubna’s globally sought-after talks and courses make holistic wellbeing accessible to all in the workplace, helping

Rose Carmichael for "Hijabs, Hitchhiking and Hangovers: Lessons from Iran"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Book is published under my pseudonym, Rose Carmichael. Rose Carmichael is a linguist, writer and journalist. Rose grew up in the countryside in Cambridgeshire, before moving to Dubai, Tehran and then eventually, London. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, where she studied Middle

Harvey Lee for "Backstage Pass"
Genre: Non-Fiction

During his 40-year mercurial career, Harvey Lee has established himself as one of the world's leading product marketers. Progressive, persistent, and pioneering, he’s helped generate billions in revenue, shattered records, and pioneered categories. He played a key role in launching the original Xbox

Barry Finlay for "Just Keep Climbing: Inspirational Stories for Overcoming Challenges and Living Life"
Genre: Non-Fiction

In 2009, Barry Finlay went up a mountain as an accountant and came down as a philanthropist. After over thirty years in various financial roles with the Canadian federal government, he took his life in a different direction and climbed Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro at age 60 with his son Chris. The

Lee Keegan for "Dr Magnesium"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Dr Lee Michael Keegan is an Acute Medical Consultant Doctor from Liverpool England. He was brought up under the cloud of managed decline in Margaret Thatchers 1980s Liverpool and searching for a way out of a world of gangs and street violence he joined the RAF Regiment as a specialist Infantryman at

Anita Selzer for "THE FEMALE GAZE"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Anita Selzer is an acclaimed author of fourteen books in adult and children’s non-fiction. Her interest is in women, gender and culture, and history. She has earned a BA, Dip Ed, Master of Education, PhD in Education and Grad Dip in Women’s Studies at universities in Melbourne, and was awarded the

Helen Rowe for "Eliminating Poverty in Britain"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Helen Rowe is an award-winning social researcher and writer. Her first book "Eliminating Poverty in Britain" won The Page Turner Awards Mentorship Prize in 2021. The book was published by Flint Books in September 2023 and since then she has spoken to a variety of audiences including, The All-Party