This intriguing anthology introduces us to arguments and experiences, evocative moments and hard scientific debate on the subject on memory, the thread that holds our lives and our history together. With an introduction by A S Byatt, the book is arranged in themed sections, including also specially commissioned essays by writers with expertise in different fields - from ‘Memory and Evolution’ by Patrick Bateson to ‘Memory and Forgetting’ by the biographer Richard Holmes and the chemistry of the brain, by Steven Rose. The fascinating extracts move through the ages from Plato and Aristotle to St Augustine, from Montaigne and Shakespeare, Voltaire and Hume, Wordsworth and Proust, to Freud and Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, W.G. Sebald and Haruki Murakami. Stimulating and provocative and often profoundly moving, MEMORY is a book to treasure - and remember.