I Want to Talk to You

Evans’s nonfiction marries that faith in the value of subjective experience to a fierce intellect; the result is a fascinating overview not only of a writer’s evolution but of the shifts in our understanding of art as…”activism and community”

Stephanie Merritt, Observer

Perceptive and empathetic... This was always going to be a book that grabs you by the lapels and insists on you listening but all the same, you do emerge impressed and better informed -- and also kind of windswept and happy

Sue Gaisford, Financial Times

There is a depth and integrity to Diana Evans’s writing; every piece feels beautifully sewn together and complete

BERNARDINE EVARISTO

Thoughtfully layered pieces... deeply personal

Megan Conner, Red

Luminously questioning, always intelligent and unafraid of confronting the impact others can have on us

ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS, author of The Three of Us

An intimate and moving meditation on the mysteries of writing and the pleasures of reading. Elegant in tone and finely wrought in form, it is a deeply insightful, and also profoundly enjoyable, collection

EKOW ESHUN, author of The Strangers

A celebration of a career that has been anything but ordinary and an intellectual mind forever evolving. A blueprint for all of us straddling between fiction and journalism, who want to create meaningful, transcendent work

CHARLIE BRINKHURST-CUFF, editor of Mother Country

One of our most outstanding writers

Bernardine Evaristo

A lyrical and glorious writer

Naomi Alderman