Books by Sadiah Qureshi
“It’s a very clever book in the way it brings together histories of science, empire, race, and the environment” Read more...
The Best History Books of 2026: The Wolfson History Prize
Helen McCarthy, Historian
Interviews where books by Sadiah Qureshi were recommended
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War
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Liverpool: A Story of Britain
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
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Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
by Francis Young
The Best History Books of 2026: The Wolfson History Prize, recommended by Helen McCarthy
The Best History Books of 2026: The Wolfson History Prize, recommended by Helen McCarthy
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded every year to history books that wed scholarly originality to popular accessibility. Here, historian Helen McCarthy talks us through the 2026 shortlist, with books covering everything from 7th-century BC Mesopotamia to the 16th-century German Peasants’ War and the postwar history of Liverpool.
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Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain
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Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power
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Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
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Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future
by Neil Shubin
The Best Popular Science Books of 2025: The Royal Society Book Prize, recommended by Sandra Knapp
The Best Popular Science Books of 2025: The Royal Society Book Prize, recommended by Sandra Knapp
Every year, the judges for the Royal Society Book Prize search for the most informative and most readable new books on scientific subjects. In 2025, their shortlist of the best popular science books includes a history of extinction in the colonial world, and the heartrending story of the struggle to save the world’s first seed bank during the Siege of Leningrad. We spoke to the botanist Dr Sandra Knapp, chair of the judging panel.
