Deborah Levy

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1989
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Ophelia and the Great Idea

    Knowledge, intuition, science, and love are thrown into question in a collection of stories that embodies everyday dilemmas and dramas in settings as diverse as Ibiza to Camden Town, and from rural Spain to a precarious rowboat...

  • Beautiful Mutants

  • Swallowing Geography

    Interrogates the yearning of discontented children, imagined homes, strangers and histories, as the century draws to an end. The irreverent and ironic narrator asks: Who are the melancholy architects of the future and how do we measure value, as we s...

  • Billy and Girl

    Billy England and his sister Girl are clever, stylish and damaged. Billy is a teenage "catastrophe theorist" which is handy since their mother is missing, and when they last saw their father his Elvis hair was in flames. They decide to sell the pain ...

  • Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places

    From the author of Billy and Girl, this collection of stories explores the emptiness at the center of the characters' lives and their attempts to fill this lack. In "Cave Girl" Cass goes through a sex change, not to become a man, but rather to bec...

  • Swimming Home

    As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water a...

  • Black Vodka

    The stories in Black Vodka, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose. She is a master of the short story, exploring loneliness and belonging; violence and tenderness; the e...

  • Things I Don't Want to Know

  • The Unloved

    The image is instant. It whirs out of the camera and they all watch it develop in silence. "Here." He gives the photograph to the perfect flawless woman without looking at it, by way of apology. When everyone gathers around Luciana to admire it, Gu...



  • Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography

    From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of "Swimming Home," a single volume comprising her first two novels: "Beautiful Mutants," long out of print, and "Swallowing Geography," never before published in the United States. "Beautiful Mutants,"...

  • Hot Milk

    I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for justice, is her illness an unsolved crime? If so, who is the villain and who is the victim? --- Sofia, a young ant...

  • Stardust Nation

    For the high-flying, heavy-drinking advertising boss Tom Banbury, the art of persuasion relies on an infiltration of the consumer’s mind. In the case of his colleague and confidante Nikos Gazidis, the overdeveloped sense of empathy that makes him s...

  • Early Levy

    Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy's feverish allegory of a first novel, introduces a manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a series of grotesques--among them the Poet, the Banker, and the Anorexic Anarchist. Levy explores the anxieti...

  • The Cost of Living

  • The Man Who Saw Everything

    An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in e...

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  • Billy & Girl

    In this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere in England. Girl spends much of her time tryin...

  • August Blue

    Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher's WeeklyA new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.At the height of he...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Deborah Levy has published 18 books.

Deborah Levy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, August Blue, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Deborah Levy, Ophelia and the Great Idea, was published in June 1989.

No. Deborah Levy does not write books in series.
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