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'What a wonderful book this is. I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the way.' – Nigel Slater‘A garden contains secrets, we all know that: buried elements that might put on strange…

Keď sa Olivia Laing presťahovala do New Yorku, ocitla sa v priestore osamelosti. Tejto zahanbujúcej skúsenosti sa spoločnosť vyhýba ako moru, ale ju začala fascinovať a rozhodla sa „mesto osamelosti“ skúmať prostredníctvom výtvarného umenia. Vo svojej…

A dazzling investigation into loneliness, art and the modern city - 'A fierce and essential work' Helen Macdonald

A blisteringly funny and remarkably tender debut novel from Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation.

A blisteringly funny and remarkably tender debut novel from Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation.

The author of The Lonely City takes readers on an ambitious investigation into the body in the twentieth century, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart an electrifying course through the great freedom movements of the era,…

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.

'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . .both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesAt a moment in which basic rights are once again in danger, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents,…

Keď sa Olivia Laing presťahovala do New Yorku, ocitla sa v priestore osamelosti. Tejto zahanbujúcej skúsenosti sa spoločnosť vyhýba ako moru, ale ju začala fascinovať a rozhodla sa mesto osamelosti skúmať prostredníctvom výtvarného umenia. Vo svojej…