marion boyars

Marat/Sade

Zoe and Her Zany Animals

A colourful collection of hybrid creatures - imaginary and real - children will love the mixed up...

The Serious Game

Henning Mankell described The Serious Game as one of Sweden's lost classics. 'Söderberg wrote a c...

The Right to Useful Unemployment

In this political essay, Ivan Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, cons...

Consuming Passions

Judith Williamson explores how our cultural tastes, in films, food, television, advertising, musi...

Shadow Work

In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major hi...

Beyond Economics and Ecology

Each of the four essays reprinted here was written for a specific occasion and together comprise ...

The Silent Sin

A young woman is employed by a maid by a music publisher in Amsterdam, in the eighteenth century....

English for Au Pairs

English for Au Pairs has interlinked stories about a group of au pairs new to England.Marta, an...

Deadline at Dawn

Judith Williamson takes herself to the movies, and this book contains the reviews she wrote as fi...

Swords of Ice

Halilhan Sunteriler, would-be entrepreneur, rescues a red Volvo from the scrap heap, which he bel...

H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness

Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half o...