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’. Featuring popular science, memoir, lyrical meditation and medical history, the 2018 longlist is:
- Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
- The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
- In Pursuit of Memory by Joseph Jebelli
- Plot 29 by Allan Jenkins
- The White Book by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)
- With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix
- Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
- To Be a Machine by Mark O’Connell
- I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
- Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- The Vaccine Race by Meredith Wadman
The shortlisted books will be revealed on Tuesday 20 March and the winner will be announced on Monday 30 April. You can find out more about the Wellcome book prize here.
