Download or read book Mind on Fire written by Arnold Thomas Fanning and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 '[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.' Irish Times 'Extraordinary. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions, homelessness, a fractured family relationship ... and all while trying to recover and create. Superb writing on a frequently difficult subject.' Sinéad Gleeson Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Some ten years later, an up-and-coming playwright, he was overcome by mania and delusions. Thus began a terrible period in which he was often suicidal, increasingly disconnected from family and friends, sometimes in trouble with the law, and homeless in London. Drawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his worst, and medical and police records, Arnold Thomas Fanning has produced a beautifully written, devastatingly intense account of madness - and recovery, to the point where he has not had any serious illness for over a decade and has become an acclaimed playwright. Fanning conveys the consciousness of a person living with mania, psychosis and severe depression with a startling precision and intimacy. Mind on Fire is the gripping, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately uplifting testament of a person who has visited hellish regions of the mind. 'Arnold Thomas Fanning offers the most vivid and unflinching window into the mind of someone who is in the throes of madness ... It was like nothing I'd read before' Rick Edwards 'Mind on Fire is a truly powerful, arresting, haunting account. Arnold Thomas Fanning has reckoned with the darkest matter of his heart and mind, and I challenge anyone not to be moved by that.' Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither and A Line Made by Walking 'In this strange and singular book, Arnold Thomas Fanning mercilessly excavates the infernal underworld of his own years of madness. As reminiscent as it occasionally is of John Healy's The Grass Arena, and even of Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, the book is ultimately not quite like anything else I've read, and brought me as close to the lived reality of mental illness as I have ever been. It's a significant achievement: a painful, inexorable work of autobiography, whose existence is its own form of redemption.' Mark O'Connell, Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted author of To Be a Machine 'This is an extraordinary memoir about how it feels to be depressed, delusional, desperate' The Observer 'Incredibly important' Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self 'A ratcheting pace, a tight first-person immediacy, and utterly staggering to be a passenger over its entire warped course ... An indelible, ground-shaking account' Hilary A White, Irish Independent, Memoir of the Year, Best Reads of 2018 'A spellbinding memoir that should prove both moving and hopefully cathartic for the reader.' RTE Culture 'Told in tight and immediate first-person, and imbued with a startling momentum that ratchets unnervingly, Fanning's publishing debut ... is a significant achievement and should be a talking point in publishing this year.' Irish Independent 'Fanning's debut book lays it on the line in a deeply personal and compelling chronicle of his descent into depression and his way back out.' RTE Guide 'Wonderful' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times Books of the Year 'Unsparingly direct, searing and honest ... It is gripping to read and must have been exhausting to live' Medical Independent 'One of the most gripping and revealing memoirs I've read in a long time. A controlled and artful exploration of absolute loss of control, an unsettling and at times very moving reconstruction of a period of serious mental illness, Mind on Fire is a beautiful book about a terrifying thing.' Mark O'Connell, Irish Times Books of the Year 'Gripping' Sinéad Gleeson, Irish Times Books of the Year 'Shocking' Liz Nugent, Irish Times Books of the Year 'Poignant, beautifully detailed memoir' Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times, Best debuts of 2018 'Brave and illuminating' Sunday Business Post 'This is the type of account that not only grips you wholesale as the pages flitter past, it also changes your very perception of psychology' Hilary A White, Sunday Independent Memoir of the Year

Download or read book The Spread of Islam in the World written by Thomas W. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book which forms Prof. Thomas Arnold s magnum opus deals with a subject which few have broached to this day and gives an authoritative history of the expansion of Islam through peaceful preaching and missionary activity. The author has covered most of the countries where Muslims live. This book is a chronicle of fundamental importance and worth possessing.

Download or read book Painting in Islam written by Sir Thomas Walker Arnold and published by New York : Dover Publications. This book was released on 1965 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book First Greek Book written by Thomas Kerchever Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Caliphate written by Sir Thomas Walker Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold D D written by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christian Life written by Thomas Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arnold Palmer written by Thomas Hauser and published by Harper. This book was released on 1996-01-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 250 classic and contemporary photographs, as well as fascinating text by bestselling author Thomas Hauser, reveal for the first time who Arnold Palmer, the man, really is. Telling anecdotes from Palmer himself, other golfers, sportswriters, and family members capture the professional and private personality of this golfing legend.

Download or read book HAP written by Thomas M. Coffey and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1982 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the career of Henry H. Arnold, the U.S. Air Force's first five-star general, from his work as one of the Wright Brothers' original test pilots to his leadership of the air force in World War II.

Download or read book Access written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Rome written by Thomas Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold written by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Thomas Arnold written by Mrs. Humphry Ward and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Statistical Pamphlets written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Preaching of Islam written by Sir Thomas Walker Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Renaissance at War Smithsonian History of Warfare written by Thomas Arnold and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance at War Toward the end of the fifteenth century, modern artillery and portable firearms became the signature weapons of European armies, radically altering the nature of warfare. The new arms transformed society, too, as cities were built and rebuilt to limit the effects of bombardment by cannon. This book follows these far-reaching changes in comprehensive and fascinating detail and demonstrates how the innovations of the Renaissance paved the way to further changes in warfare. An in-depth technical look at the weaponry of the age and the tactical drills that honed the skills of Renaissance soldiers The epic wars abroad between Western Christians and the Muslim Turks Civil strife at home between despotic rulers and rebellious forces Kingly duels that play out on an international stage