The Lonely City

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneli...

To the River

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. ...

Crudo

Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel in a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of lo...

Funny Weather

Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, e...

To the River

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsumm...

La ciudad solitaria

¿Qué significa estar solo? ¿Cómo vivimos si no estamos íntimamente comprometidos con otro ser hum...

Zum Fluss

Über sechzig Jahre nachdem Virginia Woolf in der Ouse ertrunken ist, macht Olivia Laing sich an e...

Lonely City

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 GORDON BURN PRIZECHOSEN AS 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' BYObserverGuardianTelegrap...

Funny Weather

Crudo

Trip to Echo Spring

Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award. Why were so many authors of the greatest works ...

Everybody

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with powe...