Sheila Heti

A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be? 'Confronts the philosophical questions raised by childbearing and womanhood' - Sally Rooney Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood – whether or not to have children – with the intelligence, wit and originality that...

Heartbreaking, exciting, profound - a short epic that reimagines what the novel can do. Beautiful and impossible to put down. Sheila Heti is a genius. - Avni Doshi This one-of-a-kind novel... feels nothing less than vital. - Observer Pure Colour is an original, a book that says something new for our difficult times. - Anne Enright, Guardian A treat to...

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard Leve's Autoportrait, these are the alphabetical diaries. Passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, Alphabetical Diaries offers a unique and introspective glimpse into the author's mind.

Heartbreaking, exciting, profound – a short epic that reimagines what the novel can do. After God created the heavens and the earth, he stood back to contemplate creation, like a painter standing back from the canvas. This is the moment we are living in – the moment of God standing back. In this first draft of existence, a woman named...

An utterly cool and covetable new look for Sheila Heti's genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium, publishing alongside the paperback of Pure Colour in 2023. 'It made me want to write' — Sally Rooney 'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' — Margaret Atwood 'A classic in the making' — Stylist...