The CWA Mystery Thriller Book Club Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

In 1978, the CWA instituted the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction award, and for the two years 1978-1979 also awarded The CWA Silver Dagger for Non-Fiction to the runner-up. Between 1995 and 2002, this award has also been sponsored by The Macallan and renamed The MACALLAN Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. The award is currently sponsored by the membership of the CWA. It is chosen by a panel of judges with a publishing and/or legal background. The winner receives a cheque for £2,000 (about $3,700/€2,900), as well as an ornamental dagger.

NB: This is now a biennial award and will next be presented in 2008. Prize: to be advised

• 2008 Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale Kester Aspden
• 2006 The Dagenham Murder (The Borough of Barking and Dagenham) Linda Rhodes, Lee Shelden and Kathryn Abnett
• 2005 On the run Gregg and Gina Hill
• 2004 Joint winners Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia John Dickie; The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s Sarah Wise
• 2003 Pointing from the Grave Samantha Weinberg
• 2002 Dead Man's Wages Lillian Pizzichini
• 2001 The Infiltrators Philip Etienne, Martin Maynard and Tony Thompson
• 2000 Mr Blue: Memoirs of a renegade Edward Bunker
• 1999 The Case of Stephen Lawrence Brian Cathcart
• 1998 Cries unheard: the story of Mary Bell Gitta Sereny
• 1997 The Jigsaw Man Paul Britton
• 1996 The Gunpowder plot: terror and faith in 1605 Antonia Fraser
• 1995 The Prodigal husband Michael Harris
• 1994 Criminal shadows David Canter
• 1993 Murder in the heart: a true-life psychological thriller Alexandra Artley
• 1992 The Reckoning: The murder of Christopher Marlowe Charles Nicholl
• 1991 Giordano Bruno and the Embassy affair John Bossy
• 1990 The Passing of Starr Jonathan Goodman
• 1989 A Gathering of saints Robert Lindsey
• 1988 The Secret lives of Trebitsch Lincoln Bernard Wasserstein
• 1987 Perfect murder: a century of unsolved homicides Bernard Taylor and Stephen Knight
• 1986 Evil angels John Bryson
• 1985 Killing for company: the case of Dennis Nilsen Brian Masters
• 1984 In God’s name David Yallop
• 1983 Double dealer Peter Watson
• 1982 Earth to earth John Cornwell
• 1981 Prisoner with a name, cell without a number Jacobo Timerman
• 1980 Conspiracy Anthony Summers