Unlocking the inner worlds of video game characters
A while ago I spoke at the Thinking Digital Conference in Gateshead on how the science of inner experience –Continue Reading
Tag: fiction
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
A Box of Birds
A Box of Birds is a novel about the material basis of conscious experience. You can find out more aboutContinue Reading
The Auctioneer
The Auctioneer was my first book. It was published in English by Fourth Estate and in a German translation byContinue Reading
The books that made me
An interview with Boundless magazine to mark the publication of Others.
The Lives of Others
‘The greatest literature challenges us to recognise our own otherness; not just to understand how people out there are differentContinue Reading
Whose first line is it anyway?
The List asked authors presenting at the Edinburgh International Book Festival about their favourite opening lines to a novel. IContinue 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
A Writers’ Alphabet
One fun thing that happened to me at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was that I was grabbed by theContinue Reading
Three days in Edinburgh
I just got back from my visit to the Edinburgh International Book Festival—tired, footsore and with fresh and vivid memoriesContinue Reading
Charles Fernyhough 