The Airey Neave Book Prize prize has been generously sponsored by Pool Reinsurance since its inception in 2017.

The prize is awarded to the work of non-fiction which the judging panel considers to have made the most significant, original, relevant, and practically valuable contribution to the understanding of terrorism.

The winner of the fifth Airey Neave Book Prize is God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware (Columbia University Press, 2024). The runner up was Terrorist Minds by John Horgan (Columbia University Press, 2023). This year’s winner was announced at a reception in London by Sir David Omand, former Director of GCHQ, a judge of this year’s prize and a previous winner himself. He said, “The panel was clear that this book is an outstanding example of readable scholarship on a topic that should concern us deeply. Bruce and Jacob are worthy winners, and are to be congratulated not just for the book but for the courage to write the book.”

Also shortlisted for the prize were Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over by Julia Ebner (Bonnier, 2023) and Doctor, Teacher, Terrorist: The Life and Legacy of Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri by Sajjan M. Gohel (Oxford University Press, 2024).

The other judges were Ruby Shrimpton, Dr Tim Wilson, Sir David Veness, and Sebastian Neave.

The sixth Airey Neave Book Prize will be held in 2026.