A Smell of Burning by Colin Grant

A Smell of Burning by Colin Grant

He shows us the famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vincent van Gogh, the pioneering doctors whose extraordinary breakthroughs finally helped gain an understanding of how the brain works, and, through the tragic tale of his brother, he considers the effect of epilepsy on his own life.

[A] brilliant, tender book… An extraordinary work of love and art, which left me choked with tears -- Maggie Gee * Observer *
A moving memoir as well as a historical study of epilepsy… With verve and sensitivity, Grant tells the stories of individual sufferers. -- James McConnachie * Sunday Times, Book of the Year *
Grant’s exploration of the literary, political, medical and scientific history of epilepsy is hugely compelling; his telling of the story of two brothers transcends the book’s twin genres and leaves us with a wry, gentle masterpiece. -- Seamus Sweeney * Times Literary Supplement *
A fascinating personal and historical account. ***** -- Helen Brown * Sunday Telegraph *
A flawless amalgam of personal memoir, mind science and medical history. -- Ian Thomson * Spectator *

Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey. Bageye at the Wheel, his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. His most recent book, I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He is director of WritersMosaic, a division of the RLF, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780099597872
ISBN 10	009959787X
Title	A Smell of Burning
Author	Colin Grant
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2017-08-03
Number of pages	256
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