Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the fact that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane. But at what cost?

The life story of an extraordinary mathematical genius - John Nash - who became schizophrenic, entered remission, and won the Nobel Prize. Nash was only 21 years old and at Princeton University when he invented game theory, the most influential theory of rational human behaviour of our time.

Highly articulate and self-aware, Elyn Saks offers a moving insight into the world of a schizophrenic. This compelling account will bring hope to sufferers and understanding to all.

New edition with new foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.

Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, this title intends to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. It offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.

Diana's son is diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. She devotes herself to the quietly heroic responsibility of caring for a child who will never be ordinary, a fact that Mark, her husband, finds hard to accept. When tragedy strikes, perhaps this is why Diana can't believe the coroner's conclusion that her son's death was accidental.

When college student Laurel Estabrook is attacked while cycling through the forest trails in Vermont, her life is changed forever. So begins Chris Bohjalian's stunning new novel which travels between Jay Gatsby's Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.

Cage of Stars is a novel.

Here, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. He traces over three centuries of cures for madness, questioning our obligations to the mad.

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time.

A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick.

Is the first volume of the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Together with the second volume, A Thousand Plateaus, it is widely regarded as the single most brilliant work of Continental philosophy of the last forty years.

In the tunnels beneath New York a young man, Lowboy, is missing. With each passing minute he heads deeper underground, further from the world of light and reason and closer to the moment of his great surrender. Above ground Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. Can Lateef find Lowboy before it's too late?

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.

Shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us leads to feelings of alienation and a waste of human potential. This title examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and 'us and them' thinking, and illustrates ideas with a case history of a ten-day psychosis.

The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him.

A Memoir.

The gritty, compelling New York Times bestselling novel of star-crossed lovers and circus life, set in Depression-era USA

This volume presents an argument which aims to fundamentally alter our view of the roots of humanity and answer questions of how a species of clever ape evolved into something different.

An extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing.