Tag: narrative

by Charles Fernyhough 19 Oct 2011 1

Barnes, his memory

Julian Barnes was announced last night as the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense ofContinue Reading

by Charles Fernyhough 30 Aug 2008 1

the baby in the mirror

Simulations that run on minds

I talked in an earlier post about the idea that we come to understand other people’s mental states through learningContinue 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.