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‘She’s out to foment revolution, and this book is nothing less than a manifesto.’ —The Observer

Things Are Against Us is the first collection of essays from Booker Prize-shortlisted Lucy Ellmann. Bold, angry, despairing and very, very funny, these essays cover everything - from matriarchy to environmental catastrophe to Little House on the Prairie. Ellmann calls for a moratorium on air travel, rages against bras, gives Doris Day and Agatha Christie a drubbing, and pleads for sanity in a world that - well, a world that has spent four years in the company of Donald Trump, that ‘tremendously sick, terrible, nasty, lowly, truly pathetic, reckless, sad, weak, lazy, incompetent, third-rate, clueless, not smart, dumb as a rock, all talk, wacko, zero-chance lying liar’.

Things Are Against Us is electric. It’s vital. These are essays bursting with energy, and reading them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times.

‘A wickedly funny, rousing, depressing, caps-driven work of linguistic gymnastics hellbent on upbraiding the deleterious forces of the prevailing misogyny.’ —The Guardian

‘A series of extremely entertaining rants... about everything that is bothering Lucy Ellmann in the world.’ —BBC Front Row Culture Pick

‘Witty, excoriating... It’s hard to imagine that Lucy Ellmann’s first collection of essays will have pride of place in the library of the Bullingdon Club.’ —Independent

‘It is alight with wit, scorchingly feminist and pretty darn mad about the state of the world: most particularly, the way the world treats women.’ —Harper’s Bazaar

‘Caustic, clever... a satirist and polemicist in the Swiftian tradition.’ —The TLS

‘Exuberant... Furious... Things is also extremely fun. Ellmann, despite emphatically not being a columnist, has availed herself of the columnist's charter: the right to take any number of contradictory positions, purely for the pleasure of taking them.’ —The Spectator