Amateur is on the Wellcome shortlist!

19 March 2019

Very well-deserved congratulations are due for Thomas Page McBee, whose book Amateur has been shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Announcing the shortlist, Wellcome have said: “Thomas Page McBee, the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Garden, provides an unflinching exploration into the limitations of conventional masculinity and the vexed relationship between men and violence.” See the full shortlist.