British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding unveils shortlist of six
Also up for the prize are Ed Conway for Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future (WH Allen); The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell (Viking); Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin (Grove Press UK) and Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo (Profile Books/Wellcome Collection).