Annabel Abbs

Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep... I was captivated — The Times, Book of the Week 'This book will inspire you to get up, light a candle, and experience your own Night Self' — Financial Times THE NIGHT SELF IS: CREATIVE. CURIOUS. VULNERABLE. ENCHANTED. COURAGEOUS. In the winter of 2020, Annabel Abbs experienced a series of bereavements. As...

The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. Windswept by Annabel Abbs takes readers on a transformative journey through the eyes of women who dared to tread the untamed paths of nature. This evocative narrative delves deep into the lives...

James Joyce was her father. Samuel Beckett was her lover. This is her story. A mesmerising fictionalisation of Lucia Joyce's life told by award-winning novelist Annabel Abbs'A powerful portrait of a woman whose passion for life burns from the pages' GUARDIANParis, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music and literature from artists such as Ford...

Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep . . . I was captivated The Times, Book of the Week This book will inspire you to get up, light a candle, and experience your own Night Self Financial Times An antidote to sleep zealotry New Scientist THE NIGHT SELF IS: CREATIVE. CURIOUS. VULNERABLE. ENCHANTED. COURAGEOUS. In the winter of 2020,...

The moving story of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D.H. Lawrence - and the real-life inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel banned for more than 30 years. Germany, 1907. Frieda, daughter of aristocrat Baron von Richthofen, has rashly married English professor Ernest Weekley. Visiting her family in Munich, a city alive with new ideas of revolution and free love,...

‘Exhilarating to read - thoughtful, heart-warming and poignant, with a quiet intelligence and elegance that does its heroine proud’ Bridget Collins Two women Ten years A recipe for success Eliza Acton, despite never having boiled an egg, became one of the world’s most successful food writers, revolutionising cooking and cookbooks around the world. Her story is fascinating, joyful and truly...