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Deborah Levy
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer
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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
The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home
What does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom?
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…
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…
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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Back in print at last, two pioneering early works by Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy.
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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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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…
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.
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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.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick’s iconic essay collection is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.
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"The inimitable Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living, traces the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer"--
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Simone de Beauvoir
The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex.
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…
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…
This is a book about a small house. It is also a book about place, memory and the modes of our thinking. Constructed in 1747 and situated at the end…
A new, beautifully designed paperback edition of three of Deborah Levy’s early novels: Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, and The Unloved.
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Violette LeDuc
An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her…
Now in paperback, a tantalizingly poetic (NYTBR) collection in which Levy conquer[s] the genre which demands she fashion perfect jewels (The Independent).
?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…
Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor (The New York Times).
A dazzling collection–elegantly conceived and executed (The Independent )–by the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swimming Home, whose pen is a volatile weapon (The Guardian).
This anthology contains six of Levy’s plays: Pax ; Clam ; The B File ; Pushing the Prince into Denmark ; Macbeth - False Memories ; and Honey Baby .
Primera parte de la autobiografia en construccion de Deborah Levy, un relato de la feminidad como libertad y no como castigo.
Deborah Levy arranca estas memorias recordando la etapa de…
The long-awaited brand new novel from the dazzling acclaimed author of Swimming Home, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012.
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…
Written during her transition from playwright to prose, Deborah Levy’s early works conjure fractured and fluid worlds that are wholly immersive. –The Guardian
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…
The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.
‘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…
"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.
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…
First published in Great Britain by And Other Stories in 2011 –T.p. verso.
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.
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
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…
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…
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
When…
