The ‘I’ and ‘he’ of memory
In his 2010 Booker-shortlisted novel, In A Strange Room, the South African author Damon Galgut plays an unsettling trick withContinue Reading
Category: pieces of light
Pieces of Light
A book about the science and stories of human memory, Pieces of Light: The new science of memory was publishedContinue Reading
Weaponising memory
Last year I had the chance to work with theatre director Ian Rickson and the cast of his new productionContinue Reading
Who’s got hold of children’s imaginations?
To the Sage Gateshead yesterday for BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Festival, and an event with acclaimed novelist Patrick NessContinue Reading
Shortlisted: Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2013
Pieces of Light has made the shortlist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2013. Here is today’s pressContinue Reading
Longlisted: Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Pieces of Light has been longlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. The Guardian has coveredContinue Reading
Shortlisted!
Pieces of Light has been shortlisted for the 2013 Best Book of Ideas Prize. The prize is sponsored by FoylesContinue Reading
Pieces of Light in America: the first week
Pieces of Light was published in the US last Tuesday. Here’s a roundup of what’s happened to the book inContinue Reading
A Q&A about Pieces of Light
Pieces of Light is published in the US on 19 March. In the run-up to publication, I have been answeringContinue Reading
Creative memories in Harold Pinter’s Old Times
Ian Rickson’s new production of Harold Pinter’s Old Times is currently wowing the critics in London and beyond. Late lastContinue Reading
Charles Fernyhough 