While MG’s early short stories have recently found acclaim as modern classics, she is less well known as a brilliantly perspicacious critic and essayist. This new selection of her non-fiction – covering everything from Nabokov to horses – will be excellent.
Oppositions: Selected Essays
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Written during lockdown, this is a book by a writer on top of his game. The ostensible subject is endings, last things, work produced in 'late style'... But, this being Geoff Dyer, it's abou... read more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
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Five piercingly brilliant essays on stories from the margins, art, Black history, and the crossroads of Africa and Asia as well as with the West. First work of non-fiction by an author much ... read more
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race
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First non-fiction collection by the author of Lullaby and Adèle. A confrontation with the strictures placed on women in LS’s Moroccan homeland.
Sex and Lies
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Subtle and slim volume of essays by a neurologist who champions the cross-fertilisation of different approaches - anatomical, electrical, chemical, etc.
Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology
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