Olivia Laing is the author of four acclaimed works of non-fiction, To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), The Lonely City (2016) and Everybody (2021). Her first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her work has been translated into 19 languages.Laing writes on art and culture for many publications, including the Guardian, Financial Times and New York Times. Her collected writing on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, was published in 2020. She lives in Suffolk.Instagram: @olivialanguage | olivialaing.com
21 Ebooks de Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing: To the River
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 pl …
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Olivia Laing: The Trip to Echo Spring
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 Ame …
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€11.25
Olivia Laing: The Lonely City
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Chosen as ‘BOOK OF THE YEAR’ by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Herald When Olivia Laing moved to New York …
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David Wojnarowicz: Close to the Knives
I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief. Smell the flowers while you can.Close to the Knives is the artist, writer and activist David Wojnaro …
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€11.33
Olivia Laing: Zum Fluss
Über sechzig Jahre nachdem Virginia Woolf in der Ouse ertrunken ist, macht Olivia Laing sich an einem hellen Mittsommermorgen auf den Weg durch Südengland, um dem Lauf des magischen Flusses von der Q …
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Olivia Laing: Crudo: A Novel
A New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, Esquire, and Bustle ‘Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.’ —The N …
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Olivia Laing: Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
“One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era. In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and cri …
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€17.99
Olivia Laing: La ciudad solitaria
¿Qué significa estar solo? ¿Cómo vivimos si no estamos íntimamente comprometidos con otro ser humano? ¿Cómo nos conectamos con otras personas? ¿La tecnología nos acerca más o nos aísla detrás de las …
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Olivia Laing: Everybody: A Book about Freedom
‘Astute and consistently surprising critic’ (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure …
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€24.99
Caroline Bergvall & Josh Cohen: Refugee Tales
Modelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. …
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Derek Jarman: Modern Nature
Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman’s famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovere …
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Cookie Mueller: Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition
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Olivia Laing: Die einsame Stadt
»Laing hat einen Klassiker geschrieben. Eine atemberaubende Hommage an die Kunst und daran, wie Einsamkeit uns empfänglicher macht für die Fremdartigkeit anderer.« Deborah Levy Mit Mitte dreißig zieh …
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€12.99
Olivia Laing: The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing A #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A New Yo …
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€27.99
Roger Deakin: Waterlog
Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.In 1996 Roger Deakin set out to swim the British Isles. He swam in the sea, in rivers, in streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, li …
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Olivia Laing: Everybody
Warum unser Körper politisch ist: Olivia Laing erzählt unter völlig neuen Vorzeichen von den Protestbewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Tour de Force von »einer der bedeutendsten Stimmen unserer Ze …
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€17.99
Cookie Mueller: Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller, published in the UK for the first time. Mue …
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Olivia Laing: El jardín contra el tiempo
Inspirándose en la restauración de su propio jardín, Olivia Laing se embarca en una estimulante investigación del paraíso. En 2020, comenzó a restaurar un jardín amurallado del siglo XVIII en Suffolk …
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Olivia Laing: Der Garten und die Zeit
»Dieses Buch ist reine Magie. Eine der ganz großen intellektuellen Stimmen unserer Zeit.« Daniel Schreiber Ein überwuchertes Eden voller ungewöhnlicher Pflanzen und Geheimnisse: Im Jahr 2020 beginnt …
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€22.99
Tony Peake: Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography
Tony Peake enjoyed unprecedented access to the visionary artist's archives in order to bring the extraordinary life of Derek Jarman to the page. This authorised and unique biography covers Jarma …
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€23.99