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…
Want to Read $ 9.66"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 from a garden centre or even a chocolate bar, when we turn on a light switch or a tap, when we flush a toilet or purchase a sofa from Ikea, we are persuaded believe that these things have arisen spontaneously, naturally..."-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
If you liked the nature plot in The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. Modern Nature
By: Derek Jarman
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Book by Jarman, Derek read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Derek Jarman's Modern Nature book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- gardening
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight ‘what next’ with nothing."-Derek Jarman, Modern Nature
2. 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
Want to Read $ 9.66Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- audiobook
- history
- memoir
- british literature
- gardening
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
3. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
4. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Becca Rothfeld's All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
5. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
6. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
Want to Read $ 9.00Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- audiobook
7. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.94
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting novel of three sisters navigatin… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
"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
8. 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
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- audiobook
- 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
9. 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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- audiobook
- 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
10. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- audiobook
11. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- nonfiction
- history
- essays
- audiobook
12. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- audiobook
13. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
14. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Like Love: Essays and Conversations book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
15. Rosarita
By: Anita Desai
3.30
Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition
'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Anita Desai's Rosarita book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
16. Summer Solstice: An Essay
By: Nina MacLaughlin
4.29
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Summer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dream… read more
Want to Read $ 11.96Similar categories in Nina MacLaughlin's Summer Solstice: An Essay book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- nature
- nonfiction
- essays
"…it is summer and there is freedom, and time, and luck to be had."-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay
"June verges. It shifts. And it holds two forces at once: the start of summer, the start of darkening."-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay
"Long light and there’s something in the air. Frog-song and bug-song in the air. Honeysuckle in the air. Dew in the air and beading on the tips of petal tongues."-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay
17. The Last Sane Woman
By: Hannah Regel
3.67
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure, written with unusual craft and spryness by an… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Hannah Regel's The Last Sane Woman book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
18. Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
By: Harriet Baker
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
19. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
20. By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge
By: Amy-Jane Beer
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
What is a river?, asks Amy-Jane Beer, in the opening essay of this collection, which blends nature … read more
Want to Read $ 12.00Similar categories in Amy-Jane Beer's By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- nonfiction
- nature
- essays
21. Monumenta
By: Lara Haworth
3.83
Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition
Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.The council will bulldoze it.Her home will become a monum… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Lara Haworth's Monumenta book and Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
