Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq

Sleepless by Marie DarrieussecqPlagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a. m. and then defines the next day. In Sleepless, she recounts her own experiences alongside those of fellow insomniacs, mostly writers 'as if writing were not sleeping' Ovid, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Franz Kafka, Georges Perec and others. With

Niall and Christine decided to document a year of living in their garden and in their small corner of a rapidly changing world

Featuring an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson

and finds herself at The Alamo surrounded by queso and homemade rifles

can really teach nothing at all but fire

the book is organised by an array of themes

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Buchanan's book is set to capture the zeitgeist as so many of us question where we're at' Stylist

to heed: to be attentive to this world we share and this history we're living through

who with the benefit of some emotional distance

moved and entertained by every page

John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations - and which in turn have shaped our own

and she soon uncovers shadowy secrets above and below deck