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We are delighted to announce our 2017 longlist.

We are delighted to announce that celebrated Scottish crime writer Val McDermid will be the Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 judging panel, which features leading figures from across the worlds of literature, academia, science and the media.

The Wellcome Book Prize 2017 is now open for submissions

Congratulations to Suzanne O’Sullivan for winning the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize with ‘It’s All in Your Head’

We are delighted to announce our 2016 shortlist.

In the second of a two-part series, our judges and former winners choose their all-time favourite non-fiction books that explore medicine.

The Wellcome Book Prize celebrates medicine in literature. In the first of a two-part series, we ask some of our judges and former winners to pick their all-time favourite fiction books that touch on this fascinating topic.

The world is changing, sometimes incredibly fast. But one constant is that books can help us understand the world and our place in it. Some of our 2016 judges and a former winner offer their picks to make sense of it all this year.

Escape from the frosty mornings and dark nights with these warming recommendations from some of our judges and past winners.

Author, journalist and broadcaster Baroness Joan Bakewell DBE has been announced as the chair of the Wellcome Book Prize 2016 judging panel, which features leading figures from across the worlds of literature, academia, science and the media.