The longlist for this year’s Wellcome book prize has been announced.
This prize is awarded annually to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction that ‘celebrates the topics of health and medicine in literature’. This year’s list includes seven non-fiction and five fiction titles, and we’re especially delighted to see Australian author Joan London’s remarkable 2014 novel included.
Here is the full longlist:
- How to Survive a Plague by David France
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (Read our review)
- Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal (translated by Jessica Moore)
- The Golden Age by Joan London (Read our review)
- Cure by Jo Marchant
- The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
- A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford
- Miss Jane by Brad Watson (Read our review)
- I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The shortlisted books will be revealed on 14 March and the winner will be announced on 24 April. You can find out more about the Wellcome book prize here.
