British Academy Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced

The British Academy has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,156).

The shortlisted titles are:

• Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future (Ed Conway, WH Allen)
• Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories (Amitav Ghosh, John Murray)
• The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers (Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell, Viking)
• The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492 (Marcy Norton, Harvard University Press)
• Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues (Ross Perlin, Grove Press)
• Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare (Annabel Sowemimo, Profile Trade).

Now in its 12th year, the international book prize celebrates ‘ground-breaking works of nonfiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the public understanding of world cultures and their interactions, and are grounded in rigorous and high-quality research’.

Last year’s winner was Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Nandini Das, Bloomsbury).

More information about the 2024 shortlist is available on the British Academy website.

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