Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy

Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the

inextinguishable song of woman burning hot and bright through the darkness of a man's world

Things are looking up - until she discovers a strange card in the deck that definitely shouldn't be there

it confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this century's greatest nature writers

Woven into a an engrossing saga of cruelty

But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery

shrines and seminaries

Martin Meredith has produced the definitive history of how European ideas of how to organise 10

be they Zeus or Agamemnon

In doing so

falls for Xania

comprehensive history of the organization that has transformed the Irish nationalist movement this century

Oh dear - it seems he had actually come to the zoo to invite them all to his party