Shortlist

• The Signature of All Things

  By Elizabeth Gilbert

  

• Wounded

  By Emily Mayhew

  

• Creation

  By Adam Rutherford

  

• Far from the Tree

  By Andrew Solomon

  

• Hallucinations

  By Oliver Sacks

  

• Inconvenient People

  By Sarah Wise

  

Judges

• Michael Mosley

  BBC journalist, presenter and producer

• Lisa Appignanesi

  

  Writer, novelist and cultural commentator

• Hadley Freeman

  

  Journalist

• Michael Mosley

  

  BBC journalist, presenter and producer

• Sir Andrew Motion

  

  Poet, critic, biographer, novelist and teacher

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