Daniel Tammet

From the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers A Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure loneliness while drawing on her own experience of autism. A quirky boy growing up in 1950s Ottawa sows the seeds of his future Hollywood stardom. In the US, a non-verbal man explores body language, gesture by eloquent...

"I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday because the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number nine or the sound of loud voices arguing." Like the character Hoffman portrayed, Daniel can perform extraordinary maths in his head, sees numbers as shapes, colours, textures, and...