Angela Saini

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 ‘I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book’ Sathnam Sanghera ‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be...

Superior by Angela Saini delves into the controversial and complex world of race science, uncovering its troubling history and its very real impact on contemporary society. The book takes readers on a journey from the Enlightenment period, where pseudoscientific theories about racial superiority began to take hold, to the present day, revealing how these misconceptions have infiltrated scientific discourse, despite...

Inferior is more than just a book. It’s a battle cry – and right now, it’s having a galvanising effect on its core fanbase Observer Are women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And can science give us an impartial answer to these questions? Taking us on an eye-opening journey...

From award-winning and bestselling science journalist Angela Saini comes a groundbreaking exposé of the hidden harms of race and sex data across medicine, education, politics, and society at large. ‘One of the world’s best science writers’ Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World ‘An amazing science writer. She has an ability to distill big, complicated topics into something...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 ‘I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book’ — Sathnam Sanghera ‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had...

Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year ‘Roundly debunks racism’s core lie – that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power’ Reni Eddo-Lodge Where did the idea of race come from, and what does it mean? In an age of...