The longlist for the £25,000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize has been announced, bringing together a varied range of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness and medicine. From music to madness and from anatomy to genetic engineering, this eclectic mix of books reflects the extraordinary number of ways in which authors can explore medicine to make it both engaging and accessible. The longlist includes five novels and nine works of non-fiction:
John Coates - 'The Hour Between Dog and Wolf' (Fourth Estate)
Joshua Cody - '[Sic]' (Bloomsbury)
Nick Coleman - 'The Train in the Night' (Jonathan Cape)
Mohammed Hanif - 'Our Lady of Alice Bhatti' (Jonathan Cape)
Peter James - 'Perfect People' (Macmillan)
Harry Karlinsky - 'The Evolution of Inanimate Objects' (The Friday Project)
Darian Leader - 'What is Madness?' (Hamish Hamilton)
Ken Macleod - 'Intrusion' (Orbit)
Professor Peter Piot - 'No Time to Lose' (W W Norton & Company)
Michael Shermer - 'The Believing Brain' (Constable & Robinson)
Tim Spector - 'Identically Different' (Wiedenfeld & Nicolson)
Rose Tremain - 'Merivel: A man of his time' (Chatto & Windus)
Thomas Wright - 'Circulation' (Chatto & Windus)
Paul Zak - 'The Moral Molecule' (Transworld)
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