This tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers Geoff Dyer’s lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade.
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs 2010-2020
The Missing of the Somme
“Brilliant… The great Great War book of our time.” Observer
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
“Profoundly haunting and fearless… Dyer’s trademark wit and uniqueness surround you… His very best.” Pico Iyer, The New York Times Book Review
But Beautiful
“May be the best book ever written about jazz.” David Thomson, Los Angeles Times
The Ongoing Moment
“There is very little fine writing on photography. Geoff Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment adds superbly to that tiny canon: clever, provocative, witty and shrewdly on the nail.” William Boyd
Out of Sheer Rage
“The funniest book I have ever read.” Steve Martin on Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage
The Search
“If any British writer can try on the mantle of Calvino, Dyer can. He has a poet’s gift with metaphor as well as an ability to grasp ideas, hold them, pass them on.” New Statesman & Society
The Colour of Memory
“In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post.” The Times
Anglo-English Attitudes: Essays, Reviews, Misadventures 1984-99
“Books by Geoff Dyer get under your skin. Where most writers barely nick the flesh of human feeling, Dyer somehow manages to dig deeper.” Guardian
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews 1999-2010
“Not just an education but a joy”, Zadie Smith on Working the Room, Geoff Dyer’s collection of essays from 1999-2010.”
Ways of Telling: The work of John Berger
Geoff Dyer’s first book, a critical study of the work of John Berger.