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Crudo by Olivia Laing
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
"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
Everybody : A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
$44.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction (General)
'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
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
$44.99 AUD
Category: Science
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General)
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: Art | 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: Memoir | 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
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