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Deborah Levy
First instalment of Levy’s essential ‘living autobiography’ trilogy - reissued to match the beautiful Cost of Living hardback
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Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy’s critically acclaimed ‘Living Autobiography
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The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home
From the author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home comes an electrifying novel that traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual…
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What does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom?
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Explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Examining female rage and sexuality, this novel explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood, testing the bonds of parent and…
2012 Man Booker Prize shortlisted. As he arrives with his family at the villa, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is alive. She is Kitty…
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A love song between an angel and an accountant: think Patti Smith and Philip Larkin duet, with Laurel and Hardy as backing band.
Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher's Weekly
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated…
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Simone de Beauvoir
The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex.
A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.
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Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. This book explores broken dreams and self-destructive desires in a shimmering, dislocated allegory of…
A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather to celebrate Christmas in a remote French chateau. Then an Englishwoman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she…
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A cowboy receives the sad offer of love in a pinball arcade. An English tourist mimes his own grotesque death. These and other interlinked stories explore the yearning of discontented…
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At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy…
How does love change us? How do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions…
Violette Leduc
A quirky and compassionate tale of a woman’s solitary wanderings through 1960s Paris, with an introduction by Deborah Levy
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is an existential feminist…
Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick’s iconic essay collection is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.
First published in Great Britain by And Other Stories in 2011 –T.p. verso.
Unforgettable, off-kilter graphic fiction from Booker-shortlisted novelist Deborah Levy
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Teju Cole
The new novel from the author of the celebrated Open City - a powerful and masterful exploration of what makes a meaningful life in a world of violence and wonder.
Billy England and his sister Girl are clever, stylish and damaged. Billy is a teenage catastrophe theorist which is handy since their mother is missing, and when they last saw…
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Written during her transition from playwright to prose, Deborah Levy’s early works conjure fractured and fluid worlds that are wholly immersive. –The Guardian
The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.
This anthology contains six of Levy’s plays: Pax ; Clam ; The B File ; Pushing the Prince into Denmark ; Macbeth - False Memories ; and Honey Baby .
Real Estate is the third and final installment in three-time Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy’s Living Autobiography series: an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters…
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: an electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Man Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home.
?Que quiere decir ser libre como mujer o como artista? ?Y cual es el precio de esta libertad?
El coste de vivir es la segunda parte de la poderosa autobiografia…
A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside her new work of nonfiction, The Cost of Living
"A novel by the author of The Man Who Saw Everything about wayward selves, femininities, sexualities, avatars, alter egos, and the twin poles of compassion and cruelty that exist within…
First published by Hamish Hamilton 2016.
In this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere…
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, TIME.com, and Kirkus A Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year A USA Today Book Not to Miss…
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy’s critically acclaimed ‘Living Autobiography’
Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final…
‘Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female…
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- beautiful flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.
The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex
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From the author of Billy and Girl, this collection of stories explores the emptiness at the center of the characters’ lives and their attempts to fill this lack. In Cave…
Richard Layzell
Part autobiographical, part historical, this text explores the ephemeral in art through documentation and memory. It traces the history of video, installation and performance art since 1969 through the eyes…
To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind…
In this living autobiography infused with warmth and humor, two-time Booker Prize finalist Levy critiques the roles that society assigns and reflects on the politics of breaking with the usual…
This beautifully designed book celebrates the important presentation of 40 works by Paula Rego (b. 1935, Lisbon) in her first exhibition at Victoria Miro, London. It features a personal and…
