Alone with a Book
On Reading, Writing and Looking
$38.24
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2026
Summary
A glorious celebration of reading deeply and seeing our world and ourselves reflected back to us in art.
In this rich and engaging collection of essays, Tessa Hadley reflects on a lifetime of reading with the clarity and perceptiveness that have made her one of the most widely loved names in contemporary fiction. She charts her development as a lover of literature from a book-mad childhood shaped by libraries and imaginary worlds, through the long, uncertain years of writing and teach…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787336797 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787336794 |
| Author: | Tessa Hadley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 156mm x 240mm |
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Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley is the author of eight highly praised novels:
- Accidents in the Home (longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award)
- Everything Will Be All Right
- The Master Bedroom
- The London Train
- Clever Girl
- The Past (won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016)
- Late in the Day
- Free Love
And four collections of stories:
- Sunstroke
- Married Love
- Bad Dreams
- After the Funeral
She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016 and has twice been awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, for 2018 and for 2024. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker.
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