Guardian first book award 2004
Mutant study wins Guardian book prize
Armand Marie Leroi's study of the curious and touching forms into which the human body is sometimes cast, which argues, "there are no monsters", won the £10,000 Guardian First Book award last night.
Why we are all mutants
Last night Armand Marie Leroi won the Guardian First Book Award for his insightful and unflinching work about human deformity. Here he tells Oliver Burkeman why he is so fascinated by the subject.
Guardian First Book award goes to biology lecturer
For the second year running a work of non-fiction has won the Guardian First Book award. Armand Marie Leroi was presented with the £10,000 prize for Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of Human Body at a ceremony in London this evening.
Prisoner's release
In this extract from Natasha and Other Stories, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, David Bezmozgis describes the arrival of the neighbours' dog.
Noble figure
Armand Marie Leroi examines the fascination with Toulouse-Lautrec's physical deformities in this extract from Mutants, one of the contenders for the Guardian first book award.
Guardian shortlist takes world as its oyster
What Noah did next
Josh Lacey enjoys David Maine's interpretation of the Biblical story, The Flood.
Strangely strange, but oddly normal
Jane Stevenson finds there's something missing in Susanna Clarke's historical fantasy, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
It's a kind of magick
Michel Faber has reservations about Susanna Clarke's sweeping Victorian fantasy, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, despite the hype.
Fact, fiction and poetry line up for new-writing award
Eclectic subjects for Guardian First Book longlist.
High Tide: News from a Warming World by Mark Lynas
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Natasha by David Bezmogis
Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi
Ground Water by Matthew Hollis
A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives Of American Writers And Artists, 1854-1967 by Rachel Cohen