Spent Light
$29.75
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2026
Summary
Domestic objects lead to intimate memories and troubled histories in this glorious, genre-bending book. - Guardian
In this startling hybrid – book, fiction, memoir, history, essay – Lara Pawson makes us see the world with fresh eyes, and not look away.
An unnamed woman contemplates the toaster she’s inherited from a neighbour. A homely object, hardly worthy of a sonnet or still-life. And yet, thinking of where its parts originated, who assembled it, and how it arrived…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923670112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923670115 |
| Author: | Lara Pawson |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Lara Pawson
Lara Pawson’s first book, In the Name of the People—Angola’s Forgotten Massacre, was a runner-up for the Royal Africa Society Book of the Year 2015, longlisted for The Orwell Prize 2015, and shortlisted for both the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2015 and the Political Book Awards Debut Political Book of the Year 2015. Her fragmentary memoir, This is the Place to Be, was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the PEN Ackerley Prize, and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Spent Light is Lara Pawson’s debut novel. She lives in London.
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