Jenny Diski: Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? [2020] hardback Condition:New Richard English's brilliant new book

Richard English's brilliant new book

conversations

between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict

Presenting a collage of succinct facts and 'counterfacts'

Jenny Diski: Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? [2020] hardback Condition:New Richard English's brilliant new book'A tonic for the soul I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal' Emilia Clarke 'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times 'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New Yorker Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London