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År 2020 börjar Olivia Laing återställa en muromgärdad trädgård i en liten by på den engelska landsbygden. Arbetet i detta överväxta Eden, fyllt av sällsynta växter, leder in på en fascinerande undersökning av trädgården som ställföreträdande paradis på jorden. Berättelsen rör sig mellan verkliga och fiktiva trädgårdar: från groteska aristokratiska nöjesparker finansierade av slaveri till rebelliska utposter där man försökt bilda nya gemensamma samhällen bland blomsterrabatterna. Det får Laing att ifrågasätta vad det får kosta att skapa ett luxuöst paradis på jorden – och drömma om nya sätt att leva i klimatförändringarnas tidevarv. Den tidlösa trädgården tar med läsaren på en pollenmättad resa genom årstidernas upp- och nedgångar. Den skildrar glädjen och möjligheterna med en trädgård – inte som en plats att gömma sig för världen, utan som en plats för nya möten och upptäckter.*Olivia Laing (f. 1977) är en mångfaldigt prisad brittisk författare och kritiker som blivit översatt till över tjugo språk. Den tidlösa trädgården är Laings sjunde bok."Jag tror aldrig att jag har läst en bok som så väl fångar inte bara den djupa tillfredsställelsen i trädgårdsarbetet, utan också dess nästan hypnotiska effekt på människans kropp och sinne." The Observer "Exalterande och episk". Washington Post”Vilken underbar bok detta är.” Nigel Slater
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"Den ensamma staden" blev utnämnd till BOOK OF THE YEAR (2016) av Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman och Times Literary Supplement. "Läs Olivia Laings stillsamt drabbande bok om ensamhet! Jag blev både sorgsen och stärkt" /Jonas Gardell "En skimrande juvel till bok." /Ulrika Stahre i Expressen "'Den ensamma staden' är inte en bok, den är en ny vän, vars umgänge gör, ja, livet lite mindre ensamt." /Martin Engberg i GP En oerhört intressant och oväntad läsning." /Yukiko Duke i Gomorron "Boken är både provocerande och lugnande, och fungerar som en sorts sekulär bön för ensamma själar" /The New York Times Book Review "Underbart ohämmad och konstant överraskande" /Guardian "En ny sorts litteratur ... Oavbrutet, tvångsmässigt fascinerande" /New Statesman "Laing dissekerar ett universellt tillstånd som ofta är svårt att relatera till" /Financial Times "En modig författare som tar sig an grundläggande frågor om livet och konsten" /Telegraph "Vackert, originellt och medkännande" /Independent "Du kan vara ensam var som helst, men den ensamhet du kan känna när du bor i en stad, omgiven av miljoner människor, har en särskild underton. Man skulle kunna tro att det här tillståndet var raka motsatsen till livet i en storstad, till den massiva närvaron av andra människor, men enbart fysisk närhet räcker inte för att skingra känslan av inre isolering. Det är möjligt, till och med lätt, att känna sig ensam och övergiven samtidigt som man lever sida vid sida med andra." När den engelska författaren och kritikern Olivia Laing drabbades av en förtärande ensamhet i New York efter att ett förhållande oväntat hade kraschat, vände hon sig till konsten för att fylla sina dagar och få lindring. Och med dess hjälp började hon utforska vad ensamheten kan göra med oss och vi med den. Resultatet blev den internationellt uppmärksammade essän "Den ensamma staden". Laing skriver om ensamheten hos Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Henry Darger, David Wojnarowicz och andra konstnärer – men också om sätt på vilka konsten och livet kan flätas in i varandra och skapa utrymme för mänskliga möten under omständigheter som kan verka allt annat än gynnsamma. Det är dessutom en bok om tillvaron i New York, om olika livsvärldar och livsmöjligheter bortom den snäva normaliteten, om aidsepidemin på åttiotalet och medmänsklighetens förutsättningar, om sexualitet, utsatthet, tillit. Det är en ljus bok, skriven nära ett stort mörker.
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The Garden Against Time is the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from acclaimed writer Olivia Laing; a passionate, epic exploration of the power and possibilities of gardens.'What a wonderful book this is' – Nigel Slater‘A book for thinking gardeners everywhere’ – Mary KeenWhen Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants, the work drew them into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens.Moving between the real and the imagined, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to a wartime sanctuary in Italy, to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.But the story of the garden can also be a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams, from the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the vision of a common Eden cultivated by William Morris. New modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of radical change.‘This book is what we need right now: paradise, regained’ – Philip Hoare‘Every generation gets one perfect book about gardens and this is ours’ – Julia Bell‘Prepare yourself to be enchanted’ – Jilly Cooper‘The most magical writing’ – Jeremy Lee‘I felt doubly alive after reading it’ – Celia Paul‘Quite literally unputdownable’ – Jinny Blom
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen 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 compelling artists, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.
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I ett samtal som ingår i "Märkligt väder" framhåller Olivia Laing att hon aldrig vill hålla sig till en enda sak utan gillar att kunna röra sig fram och tillbaka mellan olika saker. Och om det är något som är påtagligt i texterna i den här volymen, så är det just rörligheten, viljan att vidga perspektiven, kliva rätt ut (eller rätt in) i något annat, något oväntat – oavsett om texterna handlar om konst, litteratur, musik, politik, sexualitet, miljöaktivism eller vad det nu kan vara. En av dem tar till exempel med läsaren till en trädgård, närmare bestämt den som filmaren Derek Jarman skapade på en blåsig udde och skrev en redan klassisk bok om. Laing visar att det finns ett tydligt samband mellan Jarmans högst personliga form av trädgårdsskötsel och den politiska och estetiska radikalitet som genomsyrar hans konstnärskap. Hon är bra på att urskilja sådant. David Bowie, Ali Smith, Marguerite Duras, Freddie Mercury, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chris Kraus och Georgia O’Keeffe är andra konstnärliga gränsöverskridare vi får bekanta oss med mellan pärmarna. Men här finns även texter som på ett mer vardagsförankrat vis vänder och vrider på de utmaningar människor står inför i en tid präglad av ojämlikhet, populism och tunnelseende. Utmaningar som inte verkar göra Laing dyster, snarare klarvaken och uppfinningsrik. "Märkligt väder" blir också på så vis en bok om motstånd och hopp. Olivia Laing, född 1977, har ett flertal böcker bakom sig. På svenska finns "Den ensamma staden. Om konst, ensamhet och överlevnad" (2017).
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'It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night.'It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini's Casanova. A young - and beautiful - apprentice is just what he needs.He sweeps Nicholas to Rome, into the looking-glass world of Cinecitta, the studio where Casanova's Venice will be ingeniously assembled. Then in the spring, the lovers move together to the set of Salo, Pasolini's horrifying fable of fascism.But Nicholas has a secret and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amidst the rising tensions of Italy's 'Years of Lead', he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he didn't intend.The Silver Book is at once a queer love story and a noirish thriller, set in the dream factory of cinema. It's a fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power.
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'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' – TelegraphIn this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a vivid and politically-engaged case for the importance of art – especially in the turbulent weather of the twenty-first century.We are often told art can’t change anything. In Funny Weather, Laing argues that it can. It changes how we see the world, it exposes inequality, and it offers fertile new ways of living.Across a diverse selection of essays, Laing profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keeffe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body.Written with originality and compassion, Funny Weather is a celebration of art as a force of resistance and repair – and as an antidote to a frightening political moment.
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Queer love story meets true crime thriller in the dream factory of 1970s cinema, from the award-winning, bestselling author. Perfect for readers of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley.SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A NEW YORK MAGAZINE TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE 2026‘Sublime’ The New York Times ‘It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night.’It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini’s Casanova. A young – and beautiful – apprentice is just what he needs.He sweeps Nicholas to Rome, into the looking-glass world of Cinecittà, the studio where Casanova’s Venice will be ingeniously assembled. Then in the spring, the lovers move together to the set of Salò, Pasolini’s horrifying fable of fascism.But Nicholas has a secret and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amidst the rising tensions of Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’, he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he didn’t intend.Stylish and seductive, The Silver Book is an absorbing fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power.Praise for The Silver Book:‘Seamlessly inserts a fictional narrative into a real historical world . . . a gripping novel that is, in many ways, a technical tour de force’ Times Literary Supplement ‘A great chronicler of male genius, sexuality, loneliness and madness’ Observer‘Unabashedly queer and unapologetically erotic’ Art in America‘You do not need to be an expert on postwar Italian cinema or politics (or to know the true crime story unfolding here) to savour this novel. Laing describes the filming in dazzling clarity. 1970s Rome swaggers from the page’ The Times ‘Laing’s vibrant depiction of both real and imagined events is a prescient exploration of the meaning of art in dangerous places’ Washington Post
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A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, and Bustle Best Book of 2018 A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acclaimed author of The Lonely City.
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'I couldn't put it down' – Sally Rooney, author of Normal PeopleKathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart.Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment – marriage. But it’s not only Kathy who is changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when it could all end at any moment?From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a politically-paralysed UK, Olivia Laing's first novel is a love letter, inspired by the life and work of Kathy Acker. It is a blistering rewire of the form and a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse.'Will blow you away' – Deborah Levy, author of Hot MilkWinner of the James Tait Black Prize for FictionShortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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Queer love story meets true crime thriller in the dream factory of 1970s cinema, from the award-winning, bestselling author. Perfect for readers of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley.SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A NEW YORK MAGAZINE TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE 2026‘Sublime’ The New York Times It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini’s Casanova. A young – and beautiful – apprentice is just what he needs.He sweeps Nicholas to Rome, into the looking-glass world of Cinecittà, the studio where Casanova’s Venice will be ingeniously assembled. Then in the spring, the lovers move together to the set of Salò, Pasolini’s horrifying fable of fascism.But Nicholas has a secret and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amidst the rising tensions of Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’, he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he didn’t intend . . .Praise for The Silver Book:‘Seamlessly inserts a fictional narrative into a real historical world . . . a gripping novel that is, in many ways, a technical tour de force’ Times Literary Supplement ‘A great chronicler of male genius, sexuality, loneliness and madness’ Observer‘Unabashedly queer and unapologetically erotic’ Art in America‘You do not need to be an expert on postwar Italian cinema or politics (or to know the true crime story unfolding here) to savour this novel. Laing describes the filming in dazzling clarity. 1970s Rome swaggers from the page’ The Times ‘Laing’s vibrant depiction of both real and imagined events is a prescient exploration of the meaning of art in dangerous places’ Washington Post
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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, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil-rights movement.
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'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesFrom the award-winning author of Crudo, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom – from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.Drawing on their own experiences in protest and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X.At a time when basic rights are once again in danger, Everybody is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom – and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.'An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum' – Evening Standard'Sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin' – Financial Times
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'I couldn't put it down' – Sally Rooney, author of Normal PeopleKathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart.Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment – marriage. But it’s not only Kathy who is changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when it could all end at any moment?From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a politically-paralysed UK, Olivia Laing's first novel is a love letter, inspired by the life and work of Kathy Acker. It is a blistering rewire of the form and a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse.'[Crudo] will blow you away' – Deborah Levy, author of Hot MilkWinner of the James Tait Black Prize for FictionShortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize
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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 stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
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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 across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. From Hemingway's Key West to Williams's New Orleans, Laing pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, and strips away the tangle of mythology to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.
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'Wonderful and necessary' ANNE ENRIGHT ~ 'Constantly surprising' GUARDIAN ~ 'Stunning' DEBORAH LEVY ~ 'Compulsively fascinating' NEW STATESMAN ~ 'Beautiful' HANYA YANAGIHARA ~ 'Daring and seductive NEW YORK TIMES ~ 'Profound, unclassifiable' GARTH GREENWELL ~ 'Exhilarating' INDEPENDENT ~ 'Continually unexpected' PETER CAREY ~ 'Triumphant' TELEGRAPH ~ 'Luminously wise' HELEN MACDONALD ~ 'Unusually brave' THE TIMESWhen 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 some of its most compelling artists, illuminating loneliness in a whole new light.The Lonely City is a celebration of that strange and lovely state, intrinsic to the very act of being alive. Hailed as 'a new kind of literature' when it was first published and selling over two hundred thousand copies, Olivia Laing's dazzling book has been beloved by readers all over the world. Now, in this tenth anniversary edition, Laing reflects in a new afterword on how our experience of loneliness has changed over the course of a difficult decade.
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As Chosen By … is a photographic series by Kate Friend. In these portraits, her ‘sitters’ are flowers or plants, each one selected by a recognisable public figure.
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