An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style.
An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.
An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.
An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.
An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’GUARDIAN
‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ GUARDIAN
‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN
‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG
‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD
‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN
‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG
‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ GUARDIAN
‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN
‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 2026
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
‘The best book I have read this year’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘Masterly … I’m in awe’ SALMAN RUSHDIE
‘Beautiful’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Extraordinary’ SARAH MOSS
‘A formidable testament to a mother’s love’ SARA COLLINS
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN
‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE
A recently discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE
‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN
A deeply moving, newly discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN
‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE
A recently discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.
How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest…
Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and artistic iconoclasts fired with the wild and revolutionary genius of William Blake.
