The shortlist for the 2011 Wellcome Trust Book Prize has just been announced. The Prize celebrates the best of medicine in literature by awarding £25,000 each year for the finest fiction or non-fiction book centred around medicine. In establishing the Book Prize, the Wellcome Trust aims to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about medicine and literature, reaching audiences not normally engaged with medical science.
The judges for this year’s Prize are: Vivienne Parry, Joanna Bourke, Roger Highfield, Tim Lott and Erica Wagner.
The shortlist is:
* Turn of Mind by Alison Parry (fiction)
* Nemisis by Phillip Roth (fiction)
* My Dear I Wanted To Tell You by Louisa Young (fiction)
* State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (fiction
* The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (non-fiction)
* The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (non-fiction)
If your reading group or book club is interested in reading titles on the shortlist you can download a book club pack for each book which contains a fuller synopsis, information about the author, discussion questions, a sample passage and suggested further reading.
The winner will be announced on 9 November.
