Tag: identity

by Charles Fernyhough 20 Feb 2012 2

a box of birds

The pull of the story

A few weeks ago I went to London to film the pitch for my novel, A Box of Birds. ThisContinue Reading

by Charles Fernyhough 29 Nov 2009 0

the baby in the mirror

The one about agency and identity

The second of my posts on the Lego Star Wars theme is now up. The theme: how babies come toContinue Reading

by Charles Fernyhough 5 Sep 2008 1

featured the baby in the mirror

Packed off to the brain gym

‘Is playing with my train set using my brain?’ Isaac asks. I blame the video games for this current obsession. HisContinue Reading

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.