25 April , 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Join us for a Meet the Author talk with Nathan Filer, former mental health nurse, award-winning novelist, and creative writing lecturer. Nathan is the author of The Shock of the Fall and The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia. His work explores mental health with insight, compassion, and creativity.
Nathan Filer is a former mental health nurse. His novel The Shock of the Fall won the Costa Book of the Year, the Betty Trask Prize and the National Book Award for Popular Fiction. It was translated into thirty languages. His nonfiction book, The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. His other works include the ARIAS prize-winning podcast Why Do I Feel? He holds a PhD in creative writing from Bath Spa University, where he also teaches and conducts research in mental health and creativity.
This event is part of the Words Alive in Libraries tour, presented by South Western Regional Library Services and Literature Works, and funded by Arts Council England. More tour events can be found here.
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