Gabriel Weston, Adam Foulds and Samantha Harvey

Gabriel Weston, Adam Foulds and Samantha Harvey are three writers who explore the relationship between science, psychiatry and art.

Adam Foulds explores John Clare's struggle with depression and his incarceration in a mental asylum in The Quickening Maze, his novel which was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Samantha Harvey's arresting novel The Wilderness, concerns the terrifying descent of an architect into Alzheimer's disease and Gabriel Weston's book Direct Red, dissects the psychological effects of surgery from both the patient and the doctor's point of view.

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