Ways of Telling Binding: Paperback Ways of Telling isn't like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the ear at the door? It is its own thing.—Margaret Atwood Fractured, haunting, intimate and totally original, Ways of Telling knocked the breath out of me. It's dangerously exact, wilfully ambitious, wild in its scope and perfect in its precision. —Olivia Laing From the author of the UK bestseller Bertie, May & Mrs Fish comes an extraordinary new collection of unforgettable stories. As a bystander at Princess Diana's funeral, a fan at a James Brown concert, a passenger on a Welsh bus and a patient in a hectic hospital, Xandra Bingley's vivid portraits of everyday experience remind us of the fleeting and mysterious transience of life. A sharp, wise and knowing eye, combined with a rare delicacy of prose — this is unlike anything else you will have read. An absolute treat. — Andrew MarrThe settings of these pieces are hugely varied but Bingley brings a penetrating eye and sharp wit to their many different milieus, whether it a spell in hospital or mingling with the crowds at Princess Diana’s funeral... In this marvellous book she has brought a lifetime’s observation and a true writer’s skill to do something far more interesting and rewarding. —Peter Parker, The Spectator (UK) Memoirist and former literary agent Bingley finds profundity in the mundane in this lively collection of 26 autobiographical essays that employ a wide range of prose styles...With an evident love for language and the subtle textures of daily life, Bingley provides a dazzling trip inside her mind that rewards close attention. It’s a gem. — Publishers Weekly An extraordinary book. Xandra Bingley's darting, curious eyes miss nothing and we follow them with her at a headlong speed. I wish I could write like that. — Harriet Walter Xandra Bingley has enriched my life . . . Now she is about to enrich yours. — Margaret Atwood I couldn’t love it more. After the very first story I had a huge wide grin on my face. More more more! Every single story could be an award-winning short film. I love, love, love it. — Carey Mulligan The pieces in this book are just the right size to blow one’s mind in a train or on a tram: they have a most unusual delicacy, wit and freshness, and their physical world is powerfully seductive. — Helen Garner An extraordinary book. Xandra Bingley's darting, curious eyes miss nothing and we follow them with her at a headlong speed. I wish I could write like that. — Harriet WalterXandra Bingley’s first job, at the age of eighteen, was as a ‘trainee spy’ for MI5. On moving to the US, she worked at the Buffalo University Poetry Library, annotating Dylan Thomas and Pamela Hansford-Johnson's love letters; at The Atlantic Monthly Review in Boston as a reader, and at the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard as assistant to the Director. After a brief spell in Ireland she returned to London and moved into the house in Primrose Hill where she lives today. In London she worked at The New Review literary magazine before becoming a publisher’s reader and then commissioning editor at Jonathan Cape. She then started her own literary agency, which she ran for 15 years, representing Ali Smith, Esther Freud, Geoff Dyer and Alasdair Gray amongst many others. Xandra’s wartime childhood m Bingley, Xandra ISBN: 9781912559893

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