Award-winning non-fiction books of 2022


‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ by Sally Hayden

Irish journalist Sally Hayden won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022 for her book ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’. In this book, she writes about refugees who are detained, their plight, their resistance and resilience to survive in a system which wants them to stay silent and disappear. The book was also shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize.