Deborah Levy

Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write"....

The Cost of Living explores the subtle erasure of women's names, spaces, and stories in the modern everyday. Deborah Levy critiques the roles that society assigns to us and reflects on the politics of breaking with the usual gendered rituals....

As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive....

Following the international critical acclaim of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's Living Autobiography is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it....

An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home....

At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market....

I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember....

Acclaimed author Deborah Levy concludes her groundbreaking trilogy of living autobiographies with an exhilarating, boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it....

The inimitable Deborah Levy shares with us her most tender thoughts as she traces and measures her life against the backdrop of different literary imagination—a feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris.

22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations....

Two strangers arrive in a small Spanish fishing village. The older woman is suffering from mysterious paralysis, driven to seek a cure beyond the bounds of conventional medicine....

Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know left off, this short, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and bereavement and emerging renewed from the ashes of a former life....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Swimming Home by Deborah Levy, read by Sophie Ward....

In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites the listener into the interiors of her world, sharing her most intimate thoughts and experiences, as she traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her.

When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. Under her red coat, she hides terrible burn scars, and when she imagines beautiful things, she gets goosebumps....

The stories in Black Vodka, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose....

An ambitious, playful and totally electrifying novel about what we see and or fail to see, about carelessness and the harm we do to others, about the weight of history and our ruinous attempts to shrug it off....

Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood....

The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home....

The relationship between sleep and storytelling is an ancient one. For centuries sleep has provided writers with a magical ingredient, a passage of time during which great changes miraculously occur....