Tagged: Wellcome Book Prize

More Wellcome reading - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Feb 09, 2018 •

• books,
• Medicine,
• Science,
• Wellcome Book Prize

I know many of my readers are, well, readers. (Ha!) I like book prize longlists, as they give you a selection to browse, all of which will be great efforts. (I’d also encourage browsing around the booksellers’ and publishers’ websites, and bookstores: there are excellent books not on any prize shortlist.*) The Wellcome Trust, one of largest medical research … Read More

Excellent reading from the Wellcome Book Prize long-list - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Feb 01, 2017 •

• book prize,
• books,
• long-list,
• science communication,
• Wellcome Book Prize

These should all be excellent reading. You can think of this long-list as a list of excellent reads related to “medicine, health or illness” from many types of writing, fiction or non-fiction.* The 2017 long-list has five fiction titles and twelve non-fiction titles. The shortlist will be the exceptional reads, and the winner the pick of the bunch given the criteria and the current … Read More