{"title":"Xandra Bingley","description":"Xandra 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 memoir Bertie, May and Mrs Fish was published in the UK to great acclaim in 2005.Xandra's long involvement with writers and publishing have led to many friendships, including with Robert Lowell, John Ashbery and Caroline Blackwood, as well as Margaret Atwood, with whom she has been friends for more than 30 years.","products":[{"product_id":"ways-of-telling-paperback","title":"Ways of Telling - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWays of Telling\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fractured, haunting, intimate and totally original, \u003ci\u003eWays of Telling \u003c\/i\u003eknocked the breath out of me. It's dangerously exact, wilfully ambitious, wild in its scope and perfect in its precision.\" --Olivia Laing\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of the UK bestseller \u003ci\u003eBertie, May \u0026amp; Mrs Fish \u003c\/i\u003ecomes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 Marr","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51307552932063,"sku":"9781912559893","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/P1tftKSZM9781912559893.webp?v=1788241918"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/xandra-bingley.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}