The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
By: Joanna Moorhead
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of …
Want to Read $ 12.99"Death makes pioneers of us all, whether we like it or whether we don't."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"Death makes pioneers of us all, whether we like it or whether we don't."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"Leonora [had an] instinctive conviction that the world needs to be seen as a layering of experiences and events."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"Leonora [had an] instinctive conviction that the world needs to be seen as a layering of experiences and events."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
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1. Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
By: Leonora Carrington , Susan L. Aberth
4.37
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
This is the first book to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 19… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- british literature
- nonfiction
- womens
"If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I've a…"-Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
2. Down Below
By: Leonora Carrington , Debra Taub
3.84
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Black Swan Press 1983 Surrealist Editions Paperback. read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
"I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all."-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
"I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg …"-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
3. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
By: Anaïs Nin
3.71
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more
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- feminism
"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
4. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more
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- art
5. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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6. L'art de perdre
By: Alice Zeniter
4.13
Format: 260 pages,
L'Algerie dont est originaire sa famille n'a longtemps ete pour Naima qu'une toile de fond sans gra… read more
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7. The Dalai Lama's Cat
By: David Michie
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
"'Oh! How adorable! I didn't know you had a cat!' she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many peo… read more
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8. Beyond Black
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more
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9. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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10. Leonora
By: Elena Poniatowska
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Una mujer indomable, un espiritu rebelde. Estaba destinada a crecer como la rica heredera de un mag… read more
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11. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- memoir
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
12. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- british literature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
13. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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- feminism
- womens
"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
14. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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15. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- womens
- british literature
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
16. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
17. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
18. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- womens
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
19. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- art
- feminism
- womens
- british literature
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
20. Mother's Boy
By: Patrick Gale
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more
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- british literature
21. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- british literature
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
22. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
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23. Peace Of Wild Things
By: Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come int… read more
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- nonfiction
24. The Electricity of Every Living Thing
By: Katherine May
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing
25. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
By: Joanna Moorhead
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of … read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- memoir
- history
- british literature
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
"Death makes pioneers of us all, whether we like it or whether we don't."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"Leonora [had an] instinctive conviction that the world needs to be seen as a layering of experiences and events."-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
"You're trying to intellectualise something, desperately, and you're wasting your time ... To make it into mini-logic ... you never understand by that road. - Quoting Leonora Carrington"-Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
26. The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
By: Jen Gunter
4.35
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
OB/GYN, writer for The New York Times, USA Today, and Self, and host of the show Jensplaining, Dr. … read more
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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
"There is a strong mind-body connection so depression and anxiety are important cofactors for pain. They don't cause it but they are accelerants. Think of whatever causes your pain as the match that s…"-Jen Gunter, The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
27. Spring Cannot Be Cancelled
By: David Hockney
4.47
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy in this inspi… read more
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- art history
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
28. Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington
By: Mary M. Talbot
3.79
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning storytellers Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s full-color graphic novel Armed with Ma… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. The Tarot of Leonora Carrington
By: Leonora Carrington
4.32
Format: 120 pages, None
An oracular Surrealism: the debut presentation of Leonora Carrington's recently discovered tarot de… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
30. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
31. Nudibranch
By: Irenosen Okojie
3.40
Format: 272 pages, ebook
'Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells stories with captivating origin… read more
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