The Society is delighted to announce that the 2013 BSLS Book Prize goes to Robert Mitchell for Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Congratulations to all four shortlisted authors, and especially to Professor Mitchell on being this year’s winner, for a book of considerable research and erudition that takes literature and science scholarship in new directions. For full details of the shortlist and previous winners, click here.