Jenny Diski's Books
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century’s most colourful decade.
Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In The Sixties, Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dismantling the big ideas that dominated the era – liberation, permissiveness and...
A novel about the Montaigne's editor, Marie de Gournay. A woman of the seventeenth century who conceived the idea of being a professional writer, who recognised Montaigne's Essays as remarkable, and developed a passion about her mentor. The novel deals with the idea of being a writer and of the terror or blindness of not being good enough.
About Jenny
Born in London 1947. First novel publlished in 1984 and since then 8 other novels, three non-fiction books and two collections of essays. I write regularly for the London Review of Books, the Sunday Times and the Guardian. Before I started writing I was a...
Causes Jenny Diski Supports
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Firefly International http://www....