Little Atoms

The last of our three shows for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize, with shortlisted authors Steve Silberman & Sarah Moss. The Wellcome Book Prize 2016 winner will be announced on Monday 25th April. Thanks again to Chris, Alice and Fiona at FMcM Associates for arranging these interviews. Steve Silberman is an award-winning investigative reporter and has covered science and cultural affairs for Wired and other national magazines for more than twenty years. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME, Nature and Salon. Steve is the author of the New York Times bestseller Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently, which won the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and is shortlisted for the 2106 Wellcome Book Prize. Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of three novels: Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and Bodies of Light which was shortlisted for the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013. Sarah’s latest novel is Signs for Lost Children, which is shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize.