all past prizes

2018

To Be a Machine

By Mark O'Connell

Non-Fiction, Transhumanism, Medical Ethics, Non-Fiction

Published by Granta/Granta Books

Winner 2018

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Shortlist

The Vaccine Race

By Meredith Wadman
The Butchering Art

By Lindsey Fitzharris
With the End in Mind

By Kathryn Mannix
To Be a Machine

By Mark O'Connell
Mayhem

By Sigrid Rausing
Stay With Me

By Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

Longlist

The Vaccine Race

By Meredith Wadman
Behave

By Robert Sapolsky
The Butchering Art

By Lindsey Fitzharris
With the End in Mind

By Kathryn Mannix
To Be a Machine

By Mark O'Connell
In Pursuit of Memory

By Joseph Jebelli
Mayhem

By Sigrid Rausing
Plot 29

By Allan Jenkins
I Am, I Am, I Am

By Maggie O'Farrell
Stay With Me

By Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Midwinter Break

By Bernard MacLaverty
The White Book

By Han Kang trans. Deborah Smith

Judges

Hannah Critchlow

Neuroscientist, author and presenter
Bryony Gordon

Journalist, author and mental health campaigner
Edmund de Waal

Artist and writer
Sumit Paul-Choudhury

Journalist
Sophie Ratcliffe

Writer, critic and academic