The Typing Lady and other fictions
- 28 May 2026
- 9781837261598
- £18.99
- 336 pp
- 141×220mm
- 28 May 2026
- 9781837261604
- £15.19
- 194 pp
- 28 May 2026
- 9781837261611
- £30
- 8 hrs 48 min
In a few words
The first short story collection from the Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned
In a few words
The first story collection from the Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned
In a few words
The first story collection from the Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned
Delightful, moving, and profound, The Typing Lady is a book of love stories of every kind. It is a book of great treasures
Lily King
I love this richly imagined and deftly crafted first short story collection
Madeleine Feeny
The BooksellerPraise for Ruth Ozeki
- 'If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home
David Mitchell
No one writes quite like Ruth Ozeki
Matt Haig
Praise for Ruth Ozeki
- 'If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home
David Mitchell
No one writes quite like Ruth Ozeki
Matt Haig
More about
the book
Exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention and the unsparing clarity of old age, Ozeki brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds.
A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches as the ghost of his wife’s ambition roams the woods outside their home. A long-deceased Beat poet hijacks the mind of a young publishing assistant and rails against the state of modern literature. A curious grandmother creates a fake online dating profile to spy on her granddaughter’s romantic life – and sets in motion a deception she can’t control.
Spanning eras and geographies, The Typing Lady is an electrifying meditation on the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we abandon and the stories we become. Threaded with the tactile ephemera of writing – typewriters, letters, manuscripts and disappearing ink – the book reveals how we record ourselves in language, and how language, over time, records us in return.
More about
the book
Exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention and the unsparing clarity of old age, Ozeki brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds.
A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches as the ghost of his wife’s ambition roams the woods outside their home. A long-deceased Beat poet hijacks the mind of a young publishing assistant and rails against the state of modern literature. A curious grandmother creates a fake online dating profile to spy on her granddaughter’s romantic life – and sets in motion a deception she can’t control.
Spanning eras and geographies, The Typing Lady is an electrifying meditation on the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we abandon and the stories we become. Threaded with the tactile ephemera of writing – typewriters, letters, manuscripts and disappearing ink – the book reveals how we record ourselves in language, and how language, over time, records us in return.
More about
the book
Exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention and the unsparing clarity of old age, Ozeki brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds.
A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches as the ghost of his wife’s ambition roams the woods outside their home. A long-deceased Beat poet hijacks the mind of a young publishing assistant and rails against the state of modern literature. A curious grandmother creates a fake online dating profile to spy on her granddaughter’s romantic life – and sets in motion a deception she can’t control.
Spanning eras and geographies, The Typing Lady is an electrifying meditation on the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we abandon and the stories we become. Threaded with the tactile ephemera of writing – typewriters, letters, manuscripts and disappearing ink – the book reveals how we record ourselves in language, and how language, over time, records us in return.
An enchanting collection, full of wit, originality, warmth and intelligence. Ruth Ozeki is a brilliant writer
Mary Ann Sieghart
Ozeki’s deft storytelling offers intriguing perspectives on morality, relationships and what it means to be human
The move to a shorter form suits her playfulness, making a fun reading experience that is both an ideal introduction to and distillation of Ozeki’s writing career . . . This inventive collection should inspire readers to revive their own dormant ambitions
A treat: gorgeously written, playful and hugely entertaining
Praise for Ruth Ozeki
Ozeki [is] one of our era’s most compassionate and original minds
Dave Eggers
Ozeki is a talented storyteller
Praise for Ruth Ozeki
Ozeki [is] one of our era’s most compassionate and original minds
Dave Eggers
Ozeki is a talented storyteller
Ruth Ozeki
View profileRuth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of four novels: My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, A Tale for the Time Being – which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages – and The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022. Her nonfiction work includes the documentary film Halving the Bones and the short memoir, Timecode of a Face. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she taught creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor Emerita of Humanities.
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Ruth Ozeki
View profileRuth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of four novels: My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, A Tale for the Time Being – which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages – and The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022. Her nonfiction work includes the documentary film Halving the Bones and the short memoir, Timecode of a Face. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she taught creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor Emerita of Humanities.
ruthozeki.com
Ruth Ozeki
View profileRuth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of four novels: My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, A Tale for the Time Being – which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages – and The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022. Her nonfiction work includes the documentary film Halving the Bones and the short memoir, Timecode of a Face. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she taught creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor Emerita of Humanities.
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