Laurie Penny Books in Order

Laurie Penny collects reporting and commentary on youth protest, feminism, culture, and resistance in Britain. Firsthand accounts of demonstrations and political organizing connect the struggles of a new activist generation with broader questions about inequality and power.

Journalist Laurie Penny and artist Molly Crabapple travel to Athens during Greece’s debt crisis. Through interviews, reporting, and drawings, they document striking workers, political radicals, and everyday residents confronting unemployment, civil unrest, and an increasingly powerful far right.

Laurie Penny examines how capitalism treats women as both consumers and commodities, connecting body image with political control. This feminist critique considers the pressures placed on female bodies and argues for resistance beyond individual purchases or cosmetic choices.

Laurie Penny investigates the misogyny that follows women into online life, including threats intended to silence them. Drawing connections between technology and feminism, the essay examines internet harassment and argues for freedom of expression that includes everyone.

Drawing on feminist thought and experience in radical communities, Laurie Penny examines gender, power, work, sexuality, and dissent. Personal accounts and political criticism connect online harassment and sexual violence with economic injustice while imagining alternatives to existing social arrangements.

In a future where the wealthy can buy vastly extended lives, time deepens the divide between rich and poor. A group of Oxford anarchists and the scientist behind longevity treatment threaten the comfortable world of the privileged.

Prayers reach a system where answers may be refused or referred to a manager. This speculative story imagines divine intervention entangled with the familiar frustrations of bureaucracy and the uncertainty of getting help.

Laurie Penny’s essays confront online harassment, transgender rights, far-right politics, and the upheaval surrounding Donald Trump’s election. Combining personal reflection with feminist commentary, the collection examines the forces shaping public life and the possibilities for collective resistance.

A woman accepts an invitation from her former boyfriend to visit a cottage in the wilderness. There, the remnants of their relationship linger like a haunting, unsettling the possibility of leaving their shared past behind.

After five hundred years ruling the country of Myth and Shadow, a well-meaning but bewildered king is bored. This short fantasy begins with a ruler whose extraordinary longevity has failed to make his life satisfying.

Laurie Penny examines how changing ideas about gender, consent and sexuality challenge established social and economic power. Drawing on reporting about rape culture and feminist thought, the book connects intimate relationships with wider political struggles.