Sarah-Jayne Blakemore wins 2018 Royal Society Book Prize
2 October 2018
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore walked away with the honours at the 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Book Prize - and the calibre of the runners-up made it a hard year to call
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