Adam Weymouth’s Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe (Hutchinson Heinemann) and Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan (due from the same publisher on September 18, and scheduled to be on Radio 4 from September 15) are among 12 books long-listed today for the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. For the full long list, see the prize site. The short list will be announced on October 2 and the winner named on November 4.