The Wellcome Book Prize 2018 short-list was announced this morning, 20 March. They are:
Stay With Me
Adebayo, Ayobami
Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2017
The butchering art : Joseph Lister’s quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
Fitzharris, Lindsey
London: Allen Lane 2017
With the end in mind: dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial
Mannix K
London: HarperCollins, 2017
To be a machine: adventures among cyborgs, utopians, hackers, and the futurists solving the modest problem of death
O’Connell, Mark
London: Granta 2018
Mayhem: a memoir
Rausing, Sigrid
London: Hamish Hamilton 2017
The vaccine race: how scientists used human cells to combat killer viruses
Wadman M
London: Black Swan, 2018
Copies of those illustrated, With the end in mind, and The vaccine race are already available in NHS libraries in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and may be ordered through our online catalogue. We have copies of the others on order, so you may borrow them from our libraries soon.
