The Bullet - A Memoir of Madness, Family and the Asylums of the Past

A powerful and deeply personal exploration of mental health, and an indelible account of the legacy of familial illness and living with a fracturing mind.

About the author

Tom Lee's writing has appeared in the Sunday Times, Esquire and Prospect in the UK, the Dublin Review in Ireland and in Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All Story in the United States, among others. In 2012 he was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. He has also been awarded the Royal Society of Literature's Brookleaze Grant and two Arts Council grants for his fiction. He currently teaches undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing at Goldsmiths College.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Tom
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2025
• EAN: 9781783785056
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-505-6
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Psychology, Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression, SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders / Depression, Abnormal psychology, Mental health services, Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs