Lucy Ellman is releasing a new book next year

The award winning author of 'Ducks, Newburyport' is releasing a book of essays next year.
Lucy Ellman is a British novelist. Her debut novel 'Sweet Desserts' won the Guardian Fiction Prize and many of her following books were nominated for awards or and won them. Her most recent book 'Ducks, Newburyport' was published in 2019 and won the Goldsmiths Prize 2019 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2020.It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Orwell Prizes.
Her upcoming book will be a collection of essays on topics both current and historical, such as feminism, the environmental crisis, Donald Trump, Little House On The Prairie, Alfred Hitchcock, labour strikes, sex strikes and Virginia Woolf. Titled 'Things Are Against Us', the book will be published by Galley Beggar Press, who also published 'Ducks, Newburyport'.
Sam Jordison, Galley Beggar Press co-director, said, “I can’t wait to unleash this collection. It’s exactly what you’d expect from Lucy Ellmann—which is to say, entirely unexpected. It’s so exciting to read these essays because you just don’t know what she’s going to say next—although you do know it’s going to be something exceptional. They’re bursting with such energy that reading them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. And they do all the other things a good collection of essays should too. They’re provocative, they’re smart, they’re thoughtful, they’re angry when they need to be, but they’re also warm and compassionate. Not to mention hilarious. I’ve been laughing so much when I’ve been reading them that my co-director has called out from the next room to ask me what on earth is wrong. They’re wonderful, in short,” as reported by The Bookseller
Lucy Ellmann said, “People claim satire is dead but I can't live without it. You might say it's what distinguishes us from animals, but then there's the bioluminescent platypus. It is such a delight to work with Galley Beggar Press again. As editors Elly and Sam are unique: deeply serious, deeply fun, whiplash smart, determined, patient, precise, sensitive... and gentle! A real rarity these days.”
'Things Are Against Us' will be published in July 2021.