A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives (Paperback)

'Consistently well-written and meticulously researched' - Alain de Botton, The Sunday Times

'In breezy demotic, Fine offers an entertaining tour of current thinking' - Telegraph

'Fine sets out to demonstrate that the human brain is vainglorious and stubborn. She succeeds brilliantly.' - Mail on Sunday

'This is one of the most interesting and amusing accounts of how we think we think - I think.' - Alexander McCall Smith

'A fascinating, funny, disconcerting and lucid book ... by the end you'll realise that your brain can (and does) run rings around you.' - Helen Dunmore

'Fine, a cognitive neuroscientist with a sharp sense of humour and an intelligent sense of reality, slaps an Asbo on the hundred billion grey cells that - literally - have shifty, ruthless, self-serving minds of their own.' - The Times

'Clear, accessible writing makes her a science writer to watch' - Metro

'Fine wears her learning lightly, blending facts with humorous observations. The result is a fascinating insight into how our minds work.' - Psychologies

'A witty survey of psychology experiments demonstrating the depths of our suggestibility, the irrationality of our reasoning and the limits of free will.' - Focus