The shortlist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize is announced today, Tuesday 19 March, celebrating the best new books that illuminate the many ways that health, medicine and illness touch our lives.

• Amateur: A reckoning with gender, identity and masculinity  Canongate Books by Thomas Page McBee  USA Non-fiction
• Heart: A history  Oneworld by Sandeep Jauhar India/USA Non-fiction
• Mind on Fire: A memoir of madness and recovery  Penguin Ireland by Arnold Thomas Fanning Ireland Non-fiction
• Murmur  CB Editions by Will Eaves UK Fiction
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation  Jonathan Cape by Ottessa Moshfegh USA Fiction
• The Trauma Cleaner: One woman's extraordinary life in death, decay and disaster  The Text Publishing Company by Sarah Krasnostein Australia/USA Non-fiction