Adam Zeman: The Shape of Things Unseen

Join us as we welcome author Adam Zeman to the bookshop with his new book, The Shape of Things Unseen: A new Science of imagination - an essential guide to the latest discoveries about the workings of the human mind.

About the book: A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research

People often think of imagination as something used only in creative endeavours. In fact, we use imagination constantly as we reminisce, anticipate, plan, daydream, read, create imagined worlds. The truth is we live in the here and now much less than we tend to think. Imagination isn't the exception in our daily lives; it's our default setting. Yet only now are we beginning to understand exactly how it works.

From hallucination to sleepwalking, from REM sleep to delusions, neurologist Adam Zeman brilliantly guides us through the latest scientific studies in the world of the…