Thursday, 8 February 2018

Wellcome Book Prize

Another excellent longlist for the Wellcome Book Prize which consists of:

'Stay With Me' by Aỳbámi Adébáỳ

'The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine' by Lindsey Fitzharris

'In Pursuit of Memory: The fight against Alzheimer’s' by Joseph Jebelli

'Plot 29: A memoir' by Allan Jenkins

'The White Book' by Han Kang translated by Deborah Smith

'With the End in Mind: Dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial' by Kathryn Mannix

'Midwinter Break' by Bernard MacLaverty

'To Be a Machine: Adventures among cyborgs, utopians, hackers, and the futurists solving the modest problem of death' by Mark O’Connell

'I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen brushes with death' by Maggie O’Farrell

'Mayhem: A memoir' by Sigrid Rausing

'Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst' by Robert Sapolsky


'The Vaccine Race: How scientists used human cells to combat killer viruses' by Meredith Wadman

I have read two of them! Quite a few look equally good.

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