Nine Minds

‘Tammet’s books about words and numbers are bursting with feeling and possibility … [and] in telling the fictionalised tales of nine real, well-known autistic people, he demolishes the autism myths that originated with medics around 90 years ago and [has since] migrated to the public imagination’ - Helen Brown‘A celebration of the gifts and talents of autistic people refutes the idea that autism and empathy cannot coexist’ - Guardian‘Over two decades Daniel Tammet has narrated the neurodivergent experience and in his deeply researched Nine Minds he breaks new ground, turning a novelistic eye to autistic lives as compelling as any in fiction. The result is a book as beautiful as the minds it portrays’ - Amy Tan, author of THE JOY LUCK CLUB‘Beautifully rendered, painstakingly researched, and completely absorbing, Nine Minds offers something that autistic people urgently need: it humanises us’ - Katherine May, author of WINTERING and ENCHANTMENT‘A study of remarkable people on the spectrum and their dazzling accomplishments. Written with insight, generosity, compassion and narrative energy, Tammet’s exquisite portraits remind us that the variety of brains is every bit as essential as any other form of diversity that sustains the planet’ - Andrew Solomon, author of FAR FROM THE TREE

Daniel Tammet is the subject of the award-winning television documentary, The Boy with the Incredible Brain, as well as a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Two Poets (with Les Murray) and the Kate Bush song, Pi. He is the author of nine books, including the memoir Born on a Blue Day. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Aeon and Quadrant, and his books have been translated into thirty languages. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012, and awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, The Open University, in 2023. Daniel Tammet lives in Paris.