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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Biography & Memoir, International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780241262528
Published: October 2026
Imprint: Allen Lane
Page Extent: 400
Format: Hardback
RRP 665.00

John Berger

Tom Overton

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An illuminating new life of the peerless thinker, artist and author of Ways of Seeing

Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France. Curious about the origin of a piece of writing or art, Tom would scan something in and email it. Then there'd come a call, very early, very late. 'Hello? Is that Tom? This is John. John Berger. Can I tell you a story?' Tom realised he was bringing this archive back into John's life, peering together through holes in time, remembering things he couldn't himself. And then, at the beginning of 2017, John died.
In this extraordinary new book, Overton...

About the Author

Tom Overton

Tom Overton

After cataloguing John Berger’s archive at the British Library, Tom Overton spent fifteen years following its traces from Moscow to Texas, from the Alps to Istanbul. He worked with Berger on editing Portraits: John Berger on Artists and Landscapes: John Berger on Art, with Matthew Harle on The Underground Sea: John Berger on Miners and the Miners’ Strike, and with Katya Berger on a forthcoming edition of Berger’s letters. He’s written for The Guardian, New Statesman, Frieze and London Review of Books and Paris Review blogs, works as the Archive Curator of the Barbican Centre, and lives in Sheffield.

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