Charles Fernyhough

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Charles Fernyhough

  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • Others
    • The Voices Within
    • A Box of Birds
    • Pieces of Light
    • The Baby in the Mirror
    • The Auctioneer
  • Writings
  • Media
  • Events
  • Music
  • Science

Events

Edinburgh International Book Festival, Wed 21 August 2019, A Time for Empathy.

Edinburgh International Book Festival, Thurs 22 August 2019, Twisting Tales through History.

Durham Book Festival, 5 October 2019, Others, with Louise Doughty and Leila Aboulela.

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Charles Fernyhough is a writer and psychologist. His non-fiction book about his daughter’s psychological development, The Baby in the Mirror, was published by Granta in 2008. His book on autobiographical memory, Pieces of Light (Profile, 2012) was shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His latest non-fiction book is The Voices Within (Profile/Wellcome Collection, 2016). He is the editor of Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves (Unbound, 2019), with net profits supporting refugee and anti-hate charities.

Charles is the author of two novels, The Auctioneer (Fourth Estate, 1999) and A Box of Birds (Unbound, 2013). His books have been translated into thirteen languages. His writing credits include Scientific American, New Scientist, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Literary Review. He is a part-time Professor of Psychology at Durham University, where he leads the interdisciplinary Hearing the Voice project.

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