Attention

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers

The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life

'Anne Enright might just be Ireland's greatest living writer' THE TIMES

'A joy to read' MAGGIE O'FARRELL

For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention- casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright's career, take us from Dublin to Galway, Canada to Honduras, and through voices, bodies and time. They delve into Enright's own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. Enright has spent a lifetime reading as well as writing, and she offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter.

Attention brings Anne Enright's wide-ranging cultural criticism, literary and autobiographical writing together for the first time. In Enright's fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate. In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.

'One of the best essayists alive' MEGAN NOLAN, OBSERVER

'Confirms the intelligence, compassion and humour of the mind behind the novels' INDEPENDENT

'A glorious antidote to the mad, sad world' EIMEAR MCBRIDE

'So alert, so attuned, so alive' LUCY CALDWELL

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781787335783
Published: October 2025

Number of pages: 288
Width: 154 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing