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Crudo by Olivia Laing
$25.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'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 Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | 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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