Great news! The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee has been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011. The shortlist is as follows: The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Fourth Estate) Becoming Dickens by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Belknap … Continue reading
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Following his Guardian First Book Award win last week for ‘The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer‘, Siddhartha Mukherjee was interviewd by BBC Radio 4‘s The Today Programme. You can listen again here You can read an extract … Continue reading
The Guardian First Book Award shortlist has been announced and the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Emperor of all Maladies’ has made the list. 4th Estate have a great history with the Guardian First Book Award, having won three times with ‘Stuart: … Continue reading
The Emperor of All Maladies is longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Congratulations to Siddhartha Mukherjee, as the Emperor of All Maladies has been longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award . The awards recognise the finest new writing talent who … Continue reading
Read an extract of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Guardian Longlisted book below. You can either read the extract through the reader panel on this page, or click through to our issuu page where you can download the PDF for your e-reader. Open … Continue reading
Why did you decide to write a book about cancer? The book is a very long answer to a question first posed to me by a patient I was treating in Boston, a woman with a very aggressive form of … Continue reading


