Biographies:
Malcolm X: a life of reinvention
by Manning Marable
Ben Jonson: a life (M)
by Ian Donaldson
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian imagination (M)
by Fiona MacCarthy
Nikolaus Pevsner: the life (M)
by Susie Harries
Fiction
Solace (M)
by Belinda McKeon
Snowdrops (M)
by A.D. Miller
You and I (M)
by Padgett Powell
There But For The (M)
by Ali Smith
Source: http://www.thereader.ca/2012/05/james-tait-black-awards-2012-shortlist.html