Jenny Diski

This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul. Skating To Antarctica is a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and, over and over again, memory, into a sparse narrative. It features caustic observation and...