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Little Atoms 324 – Wellcome Book Prize 2014 Special

April 26, 2014

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The 2014 Wellcome Book Prize is announced on Tuesday 29th April, with a £30,000 prize going to the winner. In this special edition of Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to Ken Arnold of the Wellcome Collection, Lisa Appignanesi of the prize judging panel, and four of the shortlisted writers, Elizabeth Gilbert on The Signature of All Things, Emily Mayhew on Wounded, Andrew Solomon on Far From The Tree, and Sarah Wise on Inconvenient […]

Little Atoms 273 – Sarah Wise & Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

April 5, 2013

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Sarah Wise took an MA in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her book The Blackest Streets was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize in 2009. Her debut, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London, was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger […]