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Charles Fernyhough is the author of two novels, The Auctioneer (Fourth Estate), and A Box of Birds(Unbound), and has contributed to the Guardian, TIME Ideas, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Sydney Morning Herald, and Focus Magazine. He has published many scientific articles on the relation between language and thought, and his ideas on thinking as a dialogue with the self have been influential in several fields. He is a part-time Professor in Psychology at Durham University, where he directs Hearing the Voice, a project on inner voices funded by the Wellcome Trust.Outstanding...draws on both science and art to marvellous effect
Observer
A captivating journey into the mind...told with great style
Telegraph
An immense pleasure
New Scientist
Exhilarating...a compelling case
TLS
A gifted writer
FT
Both playful and profound, a wonderfully memorable read
- Douwe Draaisma, author of Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older,
A beautifully written, absorbing read - a fascinating journey through the latest science of memory
- Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine,
In this enthralling tour of human memory, Charles Fernyhough - himself a hybrid of science and poetry - reveals the mysterious forces behind these stories that shape our lives.
- Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works,
Fernyhough weaves literature and science to expose our rich, beautiful relationship with our past and future selves.
- Dr. David Eagleman, Neuroscientist and author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain,
Combining the engaging style of a novelist with the rigour of a scientist, insightful and thought provoking...will linger in your memory and change the way you think about it.
- Daniel L. Schacter, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers.,
A sophisticated blend of findings from science and ideas from literature...at times moving and very rewarding
Times Higher Education
A captivating journey into the mind
Daily Telegraph
As absorbing as it is thought-provoking
- Julian Fleming, Sunday Business Post