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Everybody : A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
$49.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories
'Simply one of our most exciting writers' Observer 'One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction' Harper's Bazaar 'Laing combines formidable intelligence with boundless curiosity and fabulous taste' James Lasdun The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant ...Show more
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories
Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbule ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Fascinated by the experience, she began t ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful, lyrical book tells the tale of the river in which Virginia Woolf drowned, and heralds the arrival of a major new voice in nature writingOne midsummer week more than 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the Ouse in 1941, Olivia Laing walked that same Sussex river from source to sea. The ...Show more
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