Winning Mutant Lecturer at London’s Imperial College Armand Marie Leroi won the Guardian First Book Award for MUTANTS: On the form, varieties and errors of the human body, prevailing over such books as Susanna Clarke’s JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL. Guardian literary editor and head of the judging panel Claire Armitstead said, “It is not just about the science of abnormality, but about everything that could possibly be affected by that science, from the lifespan of fruit flies to the depiction of nostrils in the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec.” As for Clarke’s book, Armitstead commented, “while everyone was impressed by […]