John Berger: Author of the Month
Poet, essayist, novelist, broadcaster, artist and film-maker John Berger celebrates his 90th birthday this month. To mark the occasion we have declared him our Author of the Month for November. John Berger’s work, across a range of media, has been transforming the way we look at art, life, and everything else from Ways of Seeing in 1972 to the present day. Long may it continue to do so!
Take a look at our selection of his books or drop by Bury Place to admire them in person. You won't find Lapwing and Fox or A Sparrow’s Journey anywhere else in London.
Text by Andrey Platonov, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, afterword by Gareth Evans, drawings by Georgia Keeling, cover artwork by John and Yves Berger, text by John Berger, designed by Thom Swann
John Berger described the great Soviet writer Andrey Platonov as ‘[understanding] living modern poverty more deeply than any other storyteller I have come across’. Published to mark ...
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Lapwing & Fox is a series of stimulating conversations in the form of letters and small books sent between two friends, writer and critic John Berger and artist and ...
edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam and Amarjit Chandan
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The first collection of essays dedicated to examining the work of John Berger, with cross-cultural contributions from an array of international names.
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A major new work from the world’s leading writer on art
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Photographer Jean Mohr and writer John Berger have been creative collaborators and close friends for more than fifty years. Working together on a variety of projects over ...
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‘Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate’. John Berger’s work has revolutionized the way we ...
2011: Railtracks is a collaboration between two writers of
remarkable achievement. A meditation on railways, love and loss, at once
intimate and committed, it moves from the industrial to ...
John Berger, photographs by Jean Mohr, introduction by Gavin Francis
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Berger’s exploration of what it means to heal, now inducted into the Canons series nearly fifty years after its first publication
John Berger, illustrated by Selcuk Demirel
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‘Cataract from Greek kataraktes, meaning waterfall or portcullis, an obstruction that descends from above.’ Notes and reflections by one of our great soothsayers of ...
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A powerful meditation on political resistance from one of the most original and influential thinkers of our times
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Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why.
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The follow-up to the seminal Ways of Seeing, one of the most influential books on art
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In a dusty, ramshackle town lives A’ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’s letters to the man she loves tell of ...
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Novelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic – John Berger is one of the major European intellectuals of our time. For sixty years he has been challenging the way ...
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Explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now ...
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A major history of art from one of the world’s leading writers and art critics
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Contains essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W ...
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A meditation, in words and images, on the practice of drawing, by the author of Ways of Seeing.
John Berger and Jean Mohr
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John Berger introduces a new edition of his seminal study of migrant workers, illustrated by photographer Jean Mohr.
John Berger, edited by Geoff Dyer
Peter Wollen writes:
John Berger’s selected essays run to nearly six hundred pages, yet that
is just the tip of the iceberg if one looks at the totality of his
published work: the essays and ...
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A novel by the Booker prize winning author.
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This is a collection of fragments about time and space by a writer and critic.
edited by Amarjit Chandan
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Novelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic – John Berger is one of the major European intellectuals of our time. Since the 1950s he has been challenging the way ...
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A reissued edition of this classic Booker Prize-winning novel
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which ...
John Berger and Katya Berger
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This book is first a dialogue between a daughter and a father about life, physical sensation, mortality. Both seem to listen to the other with great attention. Secondly it is ...
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With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time respond to the profound questions posed by the visual world. For when John ...
John Berger and Jean Mohr
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In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised (originally published in 1982 and unavailable for many years), the writer John Berger and the photographer ...
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In the mythic city of Troy, amidst the shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue ...
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A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. This work features essays ...
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A collection of linked stories, encounters, journeys and perceptions that bear testament to the extraordinary creativity of this Booker-winning writer
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A collection of interwoven stories. It presents a portrait of two worlds – a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven ...
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Set in a small village in the French Alps, this book relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women.
