Shortlist in running for biggest cash prize in history of competition
The winner of the Royal Society
Winton Prize for Science Books will be announced on Monday 25th
November at a free
public event hosted by comedian and television presenter, Dara O Briain.
Six books are competing for a cash prize of £25,000, the largest ever in
the history of the award. The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is
considered to be the world’s most prestigious award for popular science
writing.
The prize money for the winner
has increased from £10,000 to £25,000 this year while the authors of
each of the shortlisted books will receive £2,500 instead of the
previous £1,000 award. The shortlist, announced in September, features:
Bird Sense by
Tim Birkhead, published by Bloomsbury
The Particle
at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll, published by OneWorld Publications
Cells to
Civilizations by Enrico Coen, published by Princeton University
Press
Pieces of Light
by Charles Fernyhough, published by Profile Books
The Book of
Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson, published by Granta
Ocean of
Life by Callum Roberts, published by Allen Lane (Penguin
Books)
The first chapter of each book
is available to download for free at: royalsociety.org/awards/science-books/.
The judges on this year’s judging
panel are Jon Culshaw, impressionist and comedian; Dr Emily Flashman, Royal
Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at University of Oxford; Professor Uta Frith DBE
FBA FRS (Chair), Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at University
College London; Joanne Harris, novelist and author of Chocolat; and Lucy
Siegle, journalist and writer on environmental issues.
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