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A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa. She had long been fascinated by the indigenous group called the /Xam, who were brutally forced from their ancestral lands by European settlers in...

A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa. She had long been fascinated by the indigenous group called the /Xam, who were brutally forced from their ancestral lands by European settlers in...

In langem schwarzen Rock, Bluse, Krawatte und Hut sitzt Daisy Bates auf einem Stuhl in der Wüste. Sie sieht finster aus, Furcht einflößend, stolz, traurig, ernst, sehr schön und in jeder Hinsicht so gefährlich, wie eine Frau ihres Schlags nur sein konnte. Dreißig Jahre verbringt sie bei den Aborigines in der Wüste, schließt Freundschaft mit ihnen, taucht in ihre Traditionen ein. »Kabbarli« nennen sie sie, die Großmutter. Julia Blackburn sucht...

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42 lively, funny, moving and erotic poems written in the voice of Picasso's young mistress Marie Therese, with illustrations by Jeff Fisher.

Ein berühmter Mann, Hofmaler des spanischen Königs, hat Angst. Er steht auf der Schwelle des eigenen Hauses und zögert. Lange ist er fort gewesen. Er fürchtet sich vor den ersten Worten seiner Frau, denn er wird sie nicht hören können. Eine schwere Krankheit hat ihn vollständig taub gemacht. Im Alter von siebenundvierzig Jahren verlor Francisco José de Goya das Gehör. Julia Blackburn machte sich auf Goyas Spuren auf den Weg und erzählt die st...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT GOLDEN BEER BOOK PRIZE 2019**Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that o...

Julia Blackburn narrates Parallel storylines in this book: the process of illness and death of her mother (a painter), her own investigation about the last days of Goya's life, which leads her to travel through Spain, and the result of these investigations. This novel brings together three books in one with different degrees of fictionalization that interact with each other. Thus, when reconstructing the last days of Goya, and according to wha...

From the award-winning author of the memoir The Three of Us comes a lyrical exploration--part travelogue and part history--of Doggerland, the area beneath the North Sea which, until 6, 000 years ago, was home to a rich ecosystem and human settlement.

Die letzten sechs Jahre seines Lebens residierte Napoleon Bonaparte, einst Herrscher eines Weltreiches, in einem verfallenen Bauernhof auf Sankt Helena, einer unzugänglichen, sturmumtosten, struppigen Insel am Ende der Welt. Verfolgt von Erinnerungen an seine Macht, ist sein Reich nun begrenzt auf eine Natur, die dramatische Veränderungen durchlebt. Doch auch in dieser Welt können sich die Bewacher und der klägliche Rest eines Hofstaats der Au...

[A] tale of psychic terror . . . arresting . . . a poetical exploration of dark mind-scapes.' - Times Literary Supplement '[A] very well done novel. . . . Very highly recommended.' - The Ladder 'A delightful surprise for fans of the macabre. Simon Armstrong descends into a world of vampirism, lycanthropy, and more . . . Or, is it a more prosaic though no less terrifying descent into madness?' - John Pelan, editor of The Century's Best Ho...

Now in paperback, this is an illustrated biography of John Craske, a Norfolk fisherman who became an artist in the early 20th century. Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015.

A moving account of the history, landscape and people of a remote village high in the Ligurian mountains in Italy. Now in paperback, it was shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award. When Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the region, the people there began to tell them their personal stories. 'Impossible to forget... beautiful and deeply humane' "Sunday Times

The poet Thomas Blackburn faced his inner darkness with a savage courage and wrote exquisite poetry exploring the demons which haunted him. This memoir is painfully honest about those demons, yet it also reveals Thomas Blackburn as a master of prose. A Clip of Steel is one of the great literary memoirs of the 20th century.' - Bernard Cornwell 'A fascinating contribution to the genre of father-son memoirs that stretches from Edmund Gosse t...

Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar and the tropical fish, tortoises, chickens, guinea pigs, foxes, pigs, and two dogs. This book recalls the animals in the authors' life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father.

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In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy.

John Craske, een visser uit Norfolk, wordt in 1917 op 36-jarige leeftijd ernstig ziek, waardoor hij vaak in een staat verkeert waarin hij zich niet bewust is van zijn omgeving. Hij kan niet langer werken en begint schilderijen te maken van de zee, van boten en de kustlijn. Noodgedwongen brengt hij steeds meer tijd in bed door en hij begint borduurwerken van de zee te maken. Meer is er niet bekend over John Craske. Julia Blackburns verhaal van ...

The voices of piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, producers and critics, narcotics agents, friends, lovers, and fellow musicians provide a complete and complex picture of Billie Holiday.