Xiaolu Guo

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world. 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth tells the story of Fenfang, who is determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots. She secures a job as a film extra in Beijing, but living a modern life is not...

The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo—playful, provocative, and original—it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own. The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo—playful, provocative, and original—it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own. 'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the...

The new memoir in a triptych from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo, in which she moves to Hastings to find a room of her own and immerses herself in local history. 'This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing' – Lauren Elkin In the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront—a...

Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor. Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange — Philip Hoare One of the most valuable writers in the world — Deborah Levy 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph,...

From prize-winning author Xiaolu Guo comes a dazzling gender-flipped reimagining of Moby Dick. Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor. Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange - Philip Hoare One of the most valuable writers in the world - Deborah Levy 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up...

A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world. A Lover's Discourse is described as 'a fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' by the Guardian. A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over, just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in...

The new memoir in a triptych from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo, in which she moves to Hastings to find a room of her own and immerses herself in local history. 'One of the most valuable writers in the world' - Deborah Levy My Battle of Hastings is an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider, and a woman...

A memoir of growing up in modern China from the Orange-shortlisted and Granta Best Young British Novelist. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 A Sunday Times Book of the Year Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when...

VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind. A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love, language, and identity. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of...

After decades living in England, writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo travelled to her native China with her daughter. Her objective was twofold: to show her eleven-year-old where she came from, and to discover what remained of an enigmatic period that had long fascinated her: the magnificent and cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty (618-907). As they wander through the great cities of Xi'an...