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IN GRATITUDE
In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience - and to …
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions
Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like …
Why Didnâ??t You Just Do What You Were Told?
'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful …
On Trying to Keep Still
'I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . . I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like' EMILIA CLARKE (on Why Didn't You …
Stranger on a Train
* Follows the prize winning memoir, Skating to Antarctica. * The story of her troubled teenage years in and out of psychiatric institutions intercut with a contemporary tale of …
Skating to Antarctica
Skating to Antarctica' is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.
Then Again
A novel that explores the nature of belief, the boundaries between madness and sanity, revelation and delusion, and good and evil.
Why Didn t You Just Do What You Were Told?
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 …
Främling på tåg : hur jag, med vissa avbrott, dagdrömde och rökte mig runt Amerika
Jenny Diski ger sig i "Främling på tåg" ut på en ny resa. Hon reser med tåg genom dagens USA och möter, en smula avvaktande, en rad människor. Människor fyllda av berättelser som …
The Vanishing Princess: Stories
"Caustically funny and ebullient stories. . . . Diski's is the kind of voice of which we need more, of which we now have one fewer. But she has paved a subversive path through the …
What I Don't Know About Animals
* From the award-winning writer, following her memoirs, Skating to Antarctica, Stranger on a Train, On Trying to Keep Still - a unique book about animal watching, out now in …