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Linda Gask

Linda Gask

Linda Gask trained in Medicine in Edinburgh and is Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. Having worked as a consultant psychiatrist for many years she is now retired and lives on Orkney. She maintains a popular mental health blog, Patching the Soul (lindagask.com), and contributes to Twitter as a mental health influencer. She is the author of The Other Side of Silence (2015), which was featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and serialised in the Times Magazine. In 2017 she was awarded the prestigious President’s Medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

On The Blog

Tsundoku vs Reading

Today is National Foundation Day in Japan, a country which, I confess, has always fascinated me. I couldn’t tell you how it started, but it was probably an encounter with...

On The Blog

Resolution Reading

Happy New Year, folks! To celebrate the start of 2022, we have Assistant Publisher Kay Farrell here to recommend a few Sandstone books to help you ring in the new...