Ever wondered where your deepest desires might lead?
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Could it be that our deepest desire is for it all to be over? A book about the end of days from the award-winning author of Out of Sheer Rage and Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain
'If Raymond Chandler and Italo Calvino had collaborated on a road movie script the result might have been somewhat similar' Sunday Telegraph
'Among the most original and talented writers of his generation' Independent on Sunday
Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time' (Observer)
From a writer whose books succeed in either subverting or creating genres comes a unique look at an inaccessible world
'Dyer is becoming a character just as arch and seductive as that professional self-effacer from the previous generation, Alan Bennett' Observer
'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times
In the spirit of Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It, his bestselling book about travel, Geoff Dyer is back on the road.