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Allt jag inte vet om djur
Vad är det Jenny Diski inte vet om djur? Det vet hon inte riktigt. En sak vet hon dock: vårt förhållande och vår attityd till djur är det värt att titta lite närmare på.I den här …
Den sista resan
När Jenny Diski får diagnosen lungcancer med "två till tre år kvar att leva" vet hon inte hur hon ska reagera. Som författare bestämmer hon sig för att skriva om livet med …
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 …
A View From The Bed And Other Observations
As a general rule I try to maintain a balanced and realistic approach to life. I'm convinced that the best place for a rabbit's foot is at the end of a rabbit's leg. And if there …
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 …
Apology For The Woman Writing
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met …
Apology For The Woman Writing
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met …
Skating to Antarctica
Skating to Antarctica' is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.
In Gratitude
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a …
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 …
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 …