An eye-opening short book by the international bestselling writer of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.
Have you ever wondered how neurotypicals - so called 'normal' people - come across to those who are on the autistic spectrum?
Daniel Tammet is an essayist poet novelist and translator. In 2004 he was diagnosed with high-functioning autistic savant syndrome. In this eye-opening and fascinating book he takes readers on a tour around nightclubs ponders the significance of tattoos delves into anti-age creams and puzzles over playing the lottery all from the perspective of someone who approaches everything in life from a unique angle. After all this is a man for whom Wednesdays are always blue who sees numbers as shapes and who learned conversational Icelandic from scratch in seven days.
These short essays come together in a beautifully written sometimes humorous but always refreshing narrative that focuses on the eccentricities of modern life as seen through the eyes of someone always on the outside. Rather wonderfully it illustrates the eccentricity inherent in every kind of mind reminding us of the little-noticed strangeness of our common humanity while subtly questioning what it means to be thought 'normal'.
Daniel Tammet is the subject of the award-winning television documentary, The Boy with the Incredible Brain, as well as a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Two Poets (with Les Murray) and the Kate Bush song, Pi. He is the author of nine books, including the memoir Born on a Blue Day, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; two collections of essays, Thinking in Numbers, a New Yorker recommendation, and Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing, a Booklist Editors' Choice and Listener Magazine Book of the Year; a bilingual poetry collection in English and French, Portraits, and a novel written in French, Mishenka. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Aeon and Quadrant, and his books have been translated into thirty languages. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012, and awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, The Open University, in 2023. Daniel Tammet lives in Paris.
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet