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Crudo by Olivia Laing
$19.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn't have a clue."Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the fu ...Show more
Crudo by Olivia Laing
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The status beach read of the summer" Sunday Times StyleKathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart.From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelon ...Show more
Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana; Olivia Laing (Introduction by)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dark yet compassionate comedy of art aspirations and friendships come to naught. First published in 2003, Gary Indiana's turn-of-the-millennium novel traces the lives of a loosely connected group of New York artists and the dissolution of their scene. During the summer of 2001, the narrator of Do E ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
Everybody : A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
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
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'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 turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funn ...Show more
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
$45.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
The Garden Against Time : In Search of a Common Paradise. In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while the ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A dazzling work of memoir, biography and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of "The Trip to Echo Spring." What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do w ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
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 Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more