Author: Olivia Laing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supp...

'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' TelegraphIn this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer an...

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,...

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. ...

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 acros...

Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry... After years o...

'I couldn't put it down' Sally Rooney, author of Normal PeopleKathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. Its the summer of 2017 and the whole wo...

'I couldn't put it down' Sally Rooney, author of Normal PeopleKathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. Its the summer of 2017 and the whole wo...

She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didnt have a clue. Kathy is a wri...