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A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022
"We are all driven by our fears and desires, and sometimes we are in thrall to them."
A captivating A-Z from the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Do you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the sight of a spider - or twitch with nomophobia when you misplace your mobile phone? Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Perhaps you find yourself mired in indecision and uncertainty? (Would it be reassuring to give this a name: aboulomania?)
Our phobias and manias are contradictory and multiple: deeply intimate, yet forged by the times we live in - the commonest form of anxiety disorder, but rarely given a formal diagnosis. Plunge into this rich, surprising and fascinating A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from pre-history to the present day, as award-winning author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political.
'I am sure this book will cause a 'mania' of its own. Thought-provoking and such fun' Ian Mortimer, bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guides
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Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Her first book, The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham Award, and her latest book, The Haunting of Alma Fielding, was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She lives in North London. |
| Category: | Popular Science |
| ISBN: | 9781800813359 |
| Publisher: | Profile Books |
| On sale: | October 2022 |
| Format: | Paperback |
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