Vaillant wins £50k Baillie Gifford Prize for 'meticulously researched' Fire Weather

John Vaillant has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Sceptre) a “meticulously researched, thrillingly told book” about the devastating wildfires that struck the Canadian city of Fort McMurray in 2016.