Deborah Levy

Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power – from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home.

Det är 1988 och den unge historikern Saul Adler kliver ut på det berömda övergångsstället vid Abbey Road Studios i London för att hans flickvän Jennifer ska ta en bild av honom. Någon stund senare vaknar Saul till liv när en tysk bilförare står lutad över honom och frågar hur han mår. Saul reser sig […]

Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.’s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.

The audacious and elegiac second installment in her ‘living autobiography’ on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home. Following the acclaimed Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. The Cost of Living reveals a writer in radical […]

The audacious and elegiac second installment in her ‘living autobiography’ on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home. Following the acclaimed Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. The Cost of Living reveals a writer in radical […]

In 1989 Saul Adler ( a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is apparently fine; he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau . They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road. Saul […]

Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly… Subtle, unpredictable, surprising’ GuardianThings I Don’t Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy’s essential three-part ‘Living Autobiography’ on writing and womanhood.Taking George Orwell’s famous essay, ‘Why I Write’, as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the […]

Sofia Papastergiadis, är engelska trots att hon har ett outtalbart grekiskt efternamn. Helst av allt vill Sofia skriva, men så är det där med hennes mammas ben. Mamma Rose har haft svårt att gåsedan maken Christos lämnade den lilla familjen för att flytta hem till Grekland och bilda en ny familj. Hon har ingen känsel […]