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Olivia Laing
From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise.
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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…
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Olivia Laing, prize-winning, bestselling author of The Lonely City and Crudo, returns with a career-spanning collection of essays on the power of art in times of crisis.
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…
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Acclaimed author Olivia Laing examines the life of renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart an electrifying course through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century.
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An Oprah Daily Summer Reading Recommendation A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller
Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and…
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A dazzling investigation into loneliness, art and the modern city from the critically acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring
A blisteringly funny and remarkably tender debut novel from Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation. Winner of the James Tait Black Award 2019, shortlisted for…
Olivia Laing’s captivating exploration of alcoholism and literature; ‘beguiling, beautifully written … brilliant and original’ - Sunday Times
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Tony Peake
New edition of the classic authorised biography of one of the late twentieth century's most celebrated cultural figures.
Jos Fragoso
Olivia y su pandilla de amigos monstruosos viajan en el tiempo hasta Egipto para ayudar a Mario Momia a curarse de la fiebre del Nilo.
Hoy se celebra un concurso…
Cookie Mueller
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction.
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What do gardens mean and how can they change the world? A Garden Manifesto gathers radical visions of a future rooted in the earth from artists, writers, gardeners and activists…
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"En Engendroland estaa pasando algo extraaeno: hace horas que deberaia haber amanecido, pero sigue siendo de noche. AQuae estaa ocurriendo? Olivia Wolf y sus amigos se enfrentaraan a las malignas…
Originally published: Great Britain: Canongate Books, 2013.
Olivia Laing’s odyssey along the banks of the River Ouse, from source to sea; a profound and haunting reflection on history and landscape, and our place within them.
A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, and Bustle Best Book of 2018 A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse…
A blisteringly funny and remarkably tender debut novel from Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation.
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An ambitious investigation into the body in the twentieth century, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich.
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A New York Times Notable, The New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, Esquire, and Bustle Best Book of 2018 Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is…
Astute and consistently surprising critic (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century.
One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.
Olivia Laing, Christopher Woodward
As Chosen By is a photographic series by Kate Friend shot exclusively on medium format film. In these portraits, her 'sitters' are flowers or plants, each one selected by a…
Ian Falconer
Al escuchar las conversaciones de su madre con la esperanza de descubrir el plan secreto para su praoximo cumpleaanos, Olivia escucha a su madre hablar sobre su mal comportamiento y…
A wealth of constructive advice to help you and your child navigate and recover from the everyday stresses of growing upJust as parents can expect their children to encounter physical…
Olivia La Field
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 21st…
Cookie Mueller,Olivia Laing
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction
Translation of: Olivia and the fairy princesses.
Clementina Almeida
Putting a baby to sleep is not easy! Most of moms do it so charmingly that it looks simple and even natural. Usually, the baby answers lying comfortably in his…
Julina de Jesus
Olivia se sorprende sobremanera al oir a su mama llamarle egoista. !?Egoista?! !?Ella?!Al enterarse de lo que esa palabra significa, se preocupa mucho y decide preguntar al resto de su…
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Jo Hamya
A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman’s endless quest for an apartment of her own and the aspirations and challenges faced by the Millennial generation as it…
Colin Ward, David Crouch
The Allotment is the classic study of allotments, it looks at British society and history through the culture of allotments. With a new introduction by Olivia Laing this book remains…
Joycemarie Guzman
Un padre desesperado pierde a su hija, pero como un corazon de padre no para de buscarla hasta encontrarla y descubrir la gran verdad. Esta historia es contada en poemas…
Collaged photo-portraits of creative communities in New York and London
A comprehensive monograph on New York-based photographer Mary Manning (born 1972), Grace Is Like New Music includes hundreds of images…
Olivia Martens
Apres que la Lune soit apparue dans le ciel, rouge et pleine ce soir-la, Inaya apprend qu'elle est l'elue: celle dont les gens pensent qu'elle sauvera le monde de ce…
Olivia Nawrocki
La Magie du Smile est une invitation de l'auteur a partager une methode simple et efficace pour vivre chaque jour avec le sourire. Il n'y a pas d'age pour naitre…
Olivia Cosneau
Six baby birds have hatched and grown. They prepare to take flight and leave the nest… A wonderful pop-up full of birds that are ready to spread their wings.
