To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

7 best books like To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (Olivia Laing): Spring, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, Attrib. and other stories, The Living Mountain, Constellations, Things I Don't Want to Know, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Spring

Author	Ali Smith
ISBN	0241207053

From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Author

Deborah Levy

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...

Attrib. and other stories

Author	Eley Williams
ISBN	1910312169

This debut collection from Eley Williams centres upon the difficulties of communication and the way in which one’s thoughts — absurd, encompassing, oblique — may never be fully communicable and yet can overwhelm.

Attrib. and other stories celebrates the tricksiness of language...

The Living Mountain

Author

Nan Shepherd

This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0857861832/ ISBN13: 9780857861832.

The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing...

Constellations

Author	Sinéad Gleeson
ISBN	1509892753

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.

How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story...

Things I Don't Want to Know

Author	Deborah Levy
ISBN	1907903631

Marketed as a feminist response to Orwell’s “Why I Write,” Things I Don’t Want to Know tracks how a soft-spoken girl became a prolific writer. Across four fast-moving sections, novelist Deborah Levy recounts her childhood spent in South Africa at the height of apartheid, with her father incarcerated...

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Author	David Wojnarowicz
ISBN	0679732276

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays - a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness...