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Attention
  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529963410
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $40.00
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Attention

Writing on Life, Art and The World

  • Anne Enright
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Tr. Paperback
4 Nov 2025
Hardback
6 Dec 2025
EBook
6 Nov 2025
Audiobook
6 Nov 2025
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A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers

For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights.

These essays, collated from across Anne Enright's career, take us from Galway to Honduras, from keen-eyed memoir to urgent political writing. Enright writes about the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society: she interprets Sophocles' Antigone through the lens of the Mother and Baby Homes in Galway, writes on Ireland’s successful 2018 referendum on abortion rights, and offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter.

Attention brings Anne Enright’s wide-ranging cultural criticism, literary and autobiographical writing together for the first time. Explorations of the intersection between the personal and political, the subtleties of bodily autonomy, complex family dynamics and the challenges of intimacy preoccupy Anne Enright's award-winning and critically acclaimed fiction. Here we see Enright grappling with and answering these questions in her non-fiction. It is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.
  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529963410
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $40.00
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Praise for Attention

Anne Enright might just be Ireland’s greatest living writer… This autumn she’s publishing a collection of essays… I’m rereading her novels in anticipation

Laura Hackett, The Times, *Autumn Picks of 2025*

With all its incisiveness, wit and brilliant sanity, Anne Enright's Attention provides a glorious antidote to the mad, sad world

Eimear McBride

The provocative, wise, compassionate turns her writing takes, always so alert, so attuned, so alive

Lucy Caldwell

Anne Enright is a dazzling novelist…and an insightful essay writer… Attention confirms the intelligence, compassion and humour of the mind behind the novels

Independent

In Attention you can experience the energy of her essayistic mind, whirring with ideas of justice, truth and imagination. It’s a remarkable place to be

Sunday Times

Anne Enright’s essays are a joy to read: incisive, wise, often humorous, they are explorations of the way we live in the world today. I turned down so many page-corners as I read that I now cannot shut my copy of the book.

Maggie O'Farrell

What a pleasure this book is… I have admired Enright’s writing for a long time, but it struck me that she is one of the best essayists alive, as well as one of the best novelists, and ought to get more recognition for the former

Megan Nolan, Observer

My feeling reading this collection is that each precious line needs going over twice. First for the sound and shape of the words, the second for their meaning… [Enright] write[s] like a sharp, funny fallen angel and we will pay attention

Guardian