2018 winners of the Runciman Award

Classical Greek Oligarchy  
Matthew Simonton
Princeton University Press

House of Names 
Colm Tóibín
Penguin/Viking

Shortlisted works

Collectors, Scholars and Forgers
Carolyn Higbie
Oxford University Press

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
Bettany Hughes
Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture
Rachel Kousser
Cambridge University Press

Greek Historical Inscriptions 478-404 BC
Robin Osborne & P. J. Rhodes
Oxford University Press