The Great Dictator: A Life of Barbara CartlandMatthew Sweet

The Great Dictator: A Life of Barbara Cartland

Baillie Gifford · 2026 · Longlist

Hodder & StoughtonBiography & Memoir Nonfiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Baillie Gifford Prize	2026	Longlist

About This Book

A life of Dame Barbara Cartland, one of the twentieth century's biggest-selling novelists, set against the changing sexual and social politics of her era. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2026.

About the Author

Matthew SweetBritish

Matthew Sweet is a British writer, broadcaster, and critic. He presents Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 and has written on film, Victorian culture, and popular history. The Great Dictator: A Life of Barbara Cartland was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2026.