Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. The author of highly praised novels, including THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING (longlisted for the Booker Prize); HOT MILK and SWIMMING HOME (both Man Booker Prize finalists); THE UNLOVED and BILLY & GIRL; the acclaimed story collection BLACK VODKA; and two parts of her working autobiography, THINGS I DON'T WANT TO KNOW and THE COST OF LIVING, she lives in London. Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

Books by Deborah Levy

August Blue

by Deborah Levy - Fiction

At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson --- former child prodigy who is now in her 30s --- walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history. So begins her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double.

The Man Who Saw Everything

by Deborah Levy - Fiction

It is 1988, and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research. In exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, a homage to the famous album cover. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life.