Author of the Month: Sheila Heti
Selected by the Bookshop
Our Author of the Month for February is Sheila Heti, writer of seven unclassifiable books, most recently Alphabetical Diaries – a book which, in the words of Adam Thirlwell, ‘isn’t just dirty and funny and poignant; it reproposes everything you thought about a self and the way time passes’. The description could cover her work in general, from the semi-autobiographical Motherhood to the ‘novel from life’ How Should a Person Be, via the sprawling anthropological study of Women in Clothes; but Alphabetical Diaries, a decade-long journal revised so each sentence is in alphabetical order, is an excellent place to start.
From the publisher:
Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard’s I Remember and Edouard Levé’s Autoportrait, passionate and…
From the publisher:
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023**** WINNER OF THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD IN FICTION**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary…
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**A Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Irish Times, Refinery29, TLS and The White Review Book of the Year 2018**A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person…
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 Sheila's twenties were going to plan. She got married.She hosted parties.A theatre asked her to write a play. Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play. That her favourite…
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On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. With a hastily baked pie in his hands,…
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