Deborah Levy Books in Order

Two early plays that pit female desire and dissent against male authority. Levy uses sharp, stylized scenes rather than realism, asking who gets to speak, who gets watched, and who gets pushed aside.

Russian exile Lapinski moves through a surreal late-Thatcher London, gathering stories from damaged dreamers and grotesques. Slim and strange, the novel turns satire, migration, and broken desire into a jagged modern fable.

Levy's first collection gathers dreamlike, satirical stories where art, science, love, and power keep colliding. Strange and sharp even in miniature, the pieces test how modern life can distort feeling and language.

This long poem stages a flirtation and argument between a restless angel and an accountant who wants ordinary comforts. Funny and philosophical, it weighs security against freedom, desire, and the shape of a good life.

Narrated by the drifting J.K., this short novel follows a young woman moving across borders in search of home, love, and a self that will hold. Levy mixes road story, fairy tale, and bite-sized social satire.

During a holiday gathering at a remote French chateau, an Englishwoman is murdered and a child named Tatiana says she knows who did it. The mystery opens into a colder story about love, cruelty, and buried history.

Damaged siblings Billy and Girl live alone in England, searching for the mother who abandoned them. Their odd quests and fantasies become a dark, funny portrait of childhood hurt, reinvention, and survival.

An experimental novella told from the point of view of a steak in a butcher's shop during the mad cow panic. Funny, grotesque, and unsettling, it turns consumer fear and herd thinking into a voice on the edge of breakdown.

This story collection follows men and women circling friendship, desire, motherhood, and loneliness. Levy keeps the settings shifting and the emotions off balance, finding tenderness and damage in the same scenes.

On holiday above Nice, poet Joe Jacobs and his family find a young woman named Kitty Finch floating in their pool. Her arrival turns a tense summer into a dangerous study of secrets, desire, and grief.

Ten stories about people who slip out of place, from uneasy lovers to strangers carrying other people's memories. Levy's short fiction is cool, strange, and precise, with ordinary encounters tipping toward the uncanny.

Levy answers Orwell's essay on writing with a memoir about childhood in apartheid South Africa, exile in England, and learning to claim a writer's voice. It is brief, sharp, and personal without losing sight of politics.

Sofia takes her mother Rose to a clinic on the Spanish coast to treat a baffling paralysis. In the heat and uncertainty, Sofia begins to question the illness, their bond, and the life she has put on hold.

In this graphic novel, advertising executive Tom Banbury finds his damaged past bleeding into the mind of his colleague Nikos Gazidis. Deborah Levy and Andrzej Klimowski turn memory, trauma, and empathy into something eerie and visual.

Levy writes through divorce, motherhood, work, and the search for a new way to live in middle age. Sharp, fragmentary, and quietly funny, this memoir asks what freedom costs and what it means to become the main character in your own life.

In 1988, young historian Saul Adler is hit by a car on Abbey Road before heading to East Berlin to write a favorable essay on the GDR. As past and present fold into each other, history, desire, and self-image grow unstable.

In the final book of her Living Autobiography, Levy thinks about home, ownership, and belonging as she moves through London, Paris, and other borrowed spaces. It is a memoir about possessions, freedom, and the life a woman can claim for herself.

After walking offstage during a concert in Vienna, pianist Elsa M. Anderson drifts through Athens and across Europe. When she sees a woman who seems to be her double, the novel becomes a haunting search for freedom and selfhood.

A collage of short essays and vignettes on books, cities, objects, artists, and private memory. Read together, they form a loose self-portrait of Levy's writing life and the things that keep pulling her attention.

A writer in Paris tries to understand Gertrude Stein while spending time with two new friends, Eva and Fanny. Fiction, biography, and essay fold together into a witty book about friendship, art, and how we make a life.