Speaker
Nathan Filer
Writer
Biography
Nathan Filer is a qualified mental health nurse. The Shock of the Fall, his novel about the life of a young man grieving the loss of his brother, was a Sunday Times bestseller and translated into thirty languages. It won the Costa Book of the Year, the Betty Trask Prize, the National Book Award for Popular Fiction and the Writers’ Guild Award for Best First Novel. His nonfiction book, The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and long-listed for the Rathbones Folio Prize. He teaches Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.