Days of Love and Rage

Posted: 4th September 2026

Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Revolution longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2026

Pluto is excited to announce that Anand Gopal’s Days of Love and Rage has been longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2026.

The longlist, announced today, features 13 remarkable books showcasing that all the best stories are true.

Ravi Mattu of the judging panel called Days of Love and Rage ”a document of one of the most important and significant conflicts that the world has seen in the last twenty years.”

To celebrate the announcement, we’re offering 40% off the book until the end of September:Get your copyAUTHOR EVENT:
Anand Gopal @ the Frontline Club, London
Monday 7th September, 7pm – 8:30pm

Get your tickets here.
 Anand Gopal’s books and journalism have exposed the horrors of war in the Middle East. He is one of the few Western journalists to have embedded with the Taliban, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2025, for his reporting on a Syrian open-air prison. His book No Good Men Among the Living was a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing is unparalleled in finding the beauty of human stories within such desperate situations. He is a writer at The New Yorker.
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