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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Abandoned Person's Tale(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

To the River(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Trip to Echo Spring(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Lonely City(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Funny Weather(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Everybody(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Garden Against Time(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Comma Singles Books

Fewer Things (By: Adam Marek)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Cave (By: David Gatward)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Skirt (By: Zoe Lambert)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hitting Trees with Sticks (By: Jane Rogers)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Crosswords (By: Jonathan Wright)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Wolf (By: Jonathan Wright)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Truth (By: Guy Ware)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sports Leader (By: Jane Rogers)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Earthquakes (By: Adam Marek)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tamagotchi (By: Adam Marek)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Truck to Berlin (By: Jonathan Wright)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Virgin and the Soldier (By: Jonathan Wright)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Red Enters the Eye (By: Jane Rogers)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
An Industrial Evolution (By: Adam Marek)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Cave (By: David Constantine)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mr Carlton (By: David Constantine)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Paris Story (By: David Constantine)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Bicycle Express (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones,Paweł Huelle)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Flight into Egypt (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones,Paweł Huelle)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Abulafia (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones,Paweł Huelle)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Everything Is Moving, Everything Is Joined (By: Stella Duffy)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Pitch (By: Frank Cottrell Boyce)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Morphogenesis (By: Jane Rogers)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Heart of Denis Noble (By: Alison MacLeod)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
What Kind of Dog (By: Annie Clarkson)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Crystal Night (By: Zoe Lambert)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
My Soul to Keep (By: Martyn Bedford)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Red Lights (By: Talal Abu Shawish,Alice Guthrie)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Many Years Ago, I Was Standing In A Meydan (By: Maureen Freely,Sema Kaygusuz)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
The War of All Against All (By: )(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Easy on The Rose's (By: )(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Pardon List (By: Sara Maitland)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Mastiff (By: Matthew Holness,John Rees,Mark Stoyle)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Heavy Clay Soil: A story from the Midlands Rising (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Fiery Flag Unfurled in Coleman Street (By: Frank Cottrell Boyce)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trying Lydia (By: Andy Hedgecock,Katrina Navickas)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Banner Bright (By: Alexei Sayle,Russ Hickman)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Kick-Start: A story on the National Blind March (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
For the Tape (By: Stuart Evers,Michael Randle)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
There Are Five Ways Out Of This Room (By: Unknown,Elizabeth Crawford)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Spun (By: Laura Hird,Gordon Pentland)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Rivers of Blood (By: David Constantine)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
May Hobbs (By: Maggie Gee,Sally Alexander)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Stars are in the Sky (By: Lyn Barlow)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Exterior Paint (By: Kit de Waal)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Beckhams are in Betty's (By: Martyn Bedford)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Opposite of Drowning (By: Francesca Rhydderch,Ned Thomas)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Never Going Underground (By: Juliet Jacques,Em Temple-Malt)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Conrad Street (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Turd Tree (By: Kate Clanchy,Laleh Khalili)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Expectant Management (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Withen (By: Martyn Bedford)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bed 45 (By: Jacob Ross,Stephen D. Reicher)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Poison Tree (By: Gregory Norminton)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Abandoned Person's Tale(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Gardens of Babylon (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Widening Gyre (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Kindling (By: Jendella Benson)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Sea-God (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Into Tiny Pieces (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Hare's Declaration (By: Juris Zvirgzdiņš,Marta Ziemelis)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Birds of Kipsala Island (By: Dace Ruksane,Zanete Vevere Pasqualini)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bird of Paradise (By: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp,Rania Mamoun)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Slow Man (By: Wajdi Al-Ahdal,William M. Hutchins)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Beginner's Guide to Smuggling (By: Basma Ghalayini,Zaher Omareen,Perween Richards)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Storyteller (By: Anoud .)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Return Ticket (By: Sawad Hussain,Najwa Binshatwan)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Child in the Lock (By: Robin Ince,Glen Newey)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Benzene Dreams (By: Sarah Schofield,Robert Stickgold)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
From Above (By: Lyn Marven,Larissa Boehning)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Tank (By: Adam Talib,Ahmed al-Malik)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Biggest Bridge in the World (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Inertia (By: Anneliese Mackintosh,Michela Massimi)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Flypaper (By: Simon Armitage)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Dependant's Tale (By: Marina Lewycka)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Testicular Cancer vs. the Behemoth (By: Adam Marek)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Appellant's Tale (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Change for Low Rixham (By: )(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Lover's Tale (By: Kamila Shamsie)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Sayer of the Sooth (By: Martyn Bedford)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Longhand Option (By: Dinesh Allirajah)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Passing (By: Elisabeth Jaquette,Rania Mamoun)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Living in Hope (By: David Constantine)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
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Oliver Laing is a British cultural critic, novelist, and writer best known for the novel “Crudo” that she published in 2018. Before she became a fiction author she had written several non-fiction works that included “The Lonely City,” “The Trip to Echo Spring,” and “To the River.” In 2018, she was the winner of the Literature nonfiction prize by Windham-Campbell. Her debut fiction work “Crudo was the winner of the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2019. Olivia was brought up in St. Peter, Buckinghamshire in Chalfont and went to Sussex University to study English. However, she did not finish as she became involved in social protests and started living wild in the Sussex countryside. Between 2007 and 2009, she worked at The Observer as a Deputy Books Editor. She was also a culture and art critic for several publications including New Statesman, Frieze, and The Guardian. Olivia has also written catalog essays for a variety of modern artists such as Andy Warhol, Derek Jarman, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Chantal Joffe.

Olivia Laing’s first novel was “To the River” which was a genre-crossing nonfiction book that was part history, part memoir, part nature writing, and part Virginia Woolf biography. “The Trip to Echo Spring” her second novel was an exploration of the muddy meeting point of alcoholism and creativity. “Lonely City” her third explored the relationship between four artists who have to deal with urban loneliness and positioned the author as the poster child for loneliness. The novel “Crudo” which was her first work of fiction made the shortlist for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize. In the novel, she tells her story by combining two perspectives; one is that of Kathy Acker the experimental author while another is partially her own life. For instance, it tells of Laing getting married but is also a picture of Kathy getting married too. It also takes in the experience of Kathy’s marriage combined with the happenings of the summer of 2017 such as the dismissal of James Comey, the refugee crisis, the Charlottesville rally, and Donald Trump’s tweets among many others. Her collection of essays “Funny Weather” was published in 2020.

When Olivia Laing published “The Lonely City,” in 2016 it became a critically acclaimed work of contemporary nonfiction that set her on a path to becoming one of the most known British authors. It was during this time that broke up with her boyfriend and moved to New York from London where she became afraid of ending up a lonely old woman. Laing used the loneliness to try to understand the work of the likes of Josh Harris the pioneer of reality media, Zoe Leonard, Henry Darger, and David Wojnarowicz. It became a channel that she could use to get a better understanding of the world. After the publication of the award-winning novel, she thought she would publish another nonfiction work when the idea for Crudo came to mind. Olivia was reading Kathy Acker and this triggered in her a need to write something similar. Within seven weeks, she had the manuscript for her debut work of fiction. The novel is written in a picaresque, racy and bracing style in which she uses the third person character perspective. The result is a combination of the taste for transgression and emotional realism of Kathy Acker and Olivia’s experience in twenty-first-century Italy. Her experiences include plans for her wedding, checking updates on Twitter and vacations in Italy. Alternating between Laing’s life and the personal of Kathy Acker it is a compelling read. Olivia writes in real-time about the Grenfell Tower, Trump’s tweets, Brexit, Ivanka and Jared and the flooding of Houston among many other events.

“Crudo” by Olivia Laing is a story about an author named Kathy. It is set in the summer of 2017 where our protagonist believes her whole life is coming apart even though she is about to get married. Frantic and fast-paced, the novel happens in real-time and we get a full-throttle look into the thinking of commitment-phobic artist who the story suggests may be the realist author Kathy Acker. From a posh hotel in Tuscan to the United Kingdom where a recent referendum has left Britain paralyzed over Brexit, the lead spends much of the summer when she turned forty adjusting to the idea of a committed relationship. But it is not Kathy alone who is changing as the planet is heating up, truth is dying, fascism is gaining currency and Trump is making harebrained tweets that could lead to nuclear war. How is it possible for one to plan for the future when one tweet from the president could result in Armageddon? Olivia writes a novel with a compassionate and fierce account of how one can love even when it seems that there is no point given that the world is ending. It is a funny and brilliant novel of love in a world on the edge of a precipice.

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