An honest and original memoir about living with terminal cancer, and the author's relationship with Nobel Prize winning writer Doris Lessing, who adopted her as a teenager. From the author of "Skating To Antarctica". von Diski, Jenny

A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers."She expanded notions...

Follows the prize-winning memoir, "Skating To Antartica". Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train, where she meets all kind of characters with stories to tell. "Beautifully written" "The Times" von Diski, Jenny

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism 'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times 'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia...

NBCC FinalistNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEThe best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline" (Vulture), selected by the legendary editor Mary-Kay Wilmers."Diski expanded notions about...

A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era. What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out,...