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
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In his 2010 Booker-shortlisted novel, In A Strange Room, the South African author Damon Galgut plays an unsettling trick withContinue Reading
A book about the science and stories of human memory, Pieces of Light: The new science of memory was publishedContinue Reading
To the Sage Gateshead yesterday for BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Festival, and an event with acclaimed novelist Patrick NessContinue Reading
I just got back from my visit to the Edinburgh International Book Festival—tired, footsore and with fresh and vivid memoriesContinue Reading
Next week I’ll be at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for a series of events on familiar (for me) themesContinue Reading
I reviewed Suzanne Corkin’s book on the famous amnesiac HM for the Literary Review‘s May 2013 edition: Total Lack ofContinue Reading
Pieces of Light has been shortlisted for the 2013 Best Book of Ideas Prize. The prize is sponsored by FoylesContinue Reading
Pieces of Light was published in the US last Tuesday. Here’s a roundup of what’s happened to the book inContinue Reading
Pieces of Light is published in the US on 19 March. In the run-up to publication, I have been answeringContinue Reading
Ian Rickson’s new production of Harold Pinter’s Old Times is currently wowing the critics in London and beyond. Late lastContinue Reading