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Geoff Dyer
Could it be that our deepest desire is for it all to be over? A book about the end of days from the award-winning author of Out of Sheer Rage…
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D. H. Lawrence
A selection of D. H. Lawrence’s writings on art, morality and obscenity, edited & selected by Geoff Dyer
For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, ‘the one bright…
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As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier.
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‘One of the most graceful ruminations on photography ever … Dyer’s tour de force is as inspirational as it is accessible.’ Sunday Telegraph
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Collects twenty-five years of essays and misadventures –P. [4] of cover.
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Republished to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, Geoff Dyer’s classic book is ‘the great Great War book of our time’ (Observer).
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An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment
‘A copy … ought to be on everybody’s Desert Island’ Independent
Adam Richards
Nithurst is a much lauded and multi-awarding winning new-build house, designed for the architect and his family in the South Downs National Park: it won multiple RIBA Awards, was a…
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An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published as the film approaches its 50th anniversary
Where Eagles Dare is both a thrillingly…
A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment
From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of…
‘The funniest book I have ever read’ - Steve Martin
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Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer’s…
A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
Tom Wolfe
Now featuring an introduction by Geoff Dyer, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a wild, psychedelic, utterly Wolfe-ian romp through the rise of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
The…
Rebecca West
A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: ‘As a book about Yugoslavia it’s a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating
John Berger
Contains essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W Eugene Smith - and the…
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Annie Dillard
The best writing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer, with a foreword by Geoff Dyer.
A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer, reissued with a new introduction by Drew Gilpin Faust
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F Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. Their…
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Jay Baron Nicorvo, Geoff Dyer
In the winter of 1984, Sharon Nicorvo was violently raped while delivering pizza to the barracks at Fort Monmouth Army Base in New Jersey. At that time her seven-year-old son…
China’s rise has now entered a new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. The author…
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Ever wondered where your deepest desires might lead?
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Jeff Atman is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He’s expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties. He’s not expecting to…
* A brilliant, personal and original view of photography
Conflict resolution is the process of peacefully resolving any conflict by sharing information, understanding the cause of the conflict and diplomatic negotiation. Conflicts can be political or culture-based in nature…
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Offers a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of the spectacle of war, memory, and landscape. This book presents an exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic.
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Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer brings readers behind the scenes of the world’s largest aircraft carrier.
The definitive novel about young love and the city of Paris–sexy, intense, and daring.
In the spirit of Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It, his bestselling book about travel, Geoff Dyer is back on the road.
Journalist Jeff Atman is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He’s not expecting to meet the spell-binding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the…
‘A screamingly funny genre-defying feat. sublime’ Maggie O'Farrell, Daily Telegraph
First published in hardcover by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2016.
‘Dyer is becoming a character just as arch and seductive as that professional self-effacer from the previous generation, Alan Bennett’ Observer
‘A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody… dripping with eroticism.’ Sunday Times
Originally published: Great Britain: Little, Brown and Company, 1997 –T.p. verso.
A reflection on the late works and last days of artists, writers, musicians, and athletes –
‘Not since Colin MacInnes’s City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city’ The Times
‘If Raymond Chandler and Italo Calvino had collaborated on a road movie script the result might have been somewhat similar’ Sunday Telegraph.
Among the most original and talented writers of his generation’ Independent on Sunday.
A novel about youth in London in the 1980s
A fabulous road-movie of a novel
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year
