Strangeland

The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.

Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.

'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory' Telegraph

Tracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life.

A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind.

'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings' Marie Claire

Her writings are painfully honest . . . Strangeland is more than Tracey's diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention The Times
While her best-known art has shown Emin at her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul. Observer
A fantastically engaging storyteller . . . heartbreaking . . . effortlessly funny Metro
As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings Marie Claire
Eccentrically readable Glamour
Frequently affecting . . . read Emin for intriguing, almost incantatory sections on her travels to Turkey, the occasional shaft of two-fingers-up-at-the-world wit and the delight of seeing someone revel in vicious vengefulness Daily Telegraph
Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman, challenging conventions Grazia
Emin talks with brutal frankness . . . genuinely uplifting Scotsman
An extraordinary piece of writing . . . Brace yourself. Let's say this is a memoir (and most of the time, it is, although her relationship to the truth is variable: incidents described here have been contradicted by her elsewhere); it couldn't be filmed. The director and half the cast would be arrested . . . she has played the hand she has been dealt as skilfully and tenaciously as anyone could have, while still retaining a belief in beauty. And Strangeland comes over as honest and extraordinary Guardian
Written with a furious energy Guardian
A raw and uncompromising read . . . but it is also a tale of hope and inspiration . . . her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind Evening Standard
A very readable book, and a surprising one too Independent on Sunday
[An] odd and powerful memoir -- Marina Warner London Review of Books
A combination of memoir and confession and gives an insight into the mind of one of contemporary art's most intriguing figures Evening Standard
Beautiful . . . as vivid a piece of writing about a childhood as you could hope to read - unguarded, open-hearted, shocking -- Chris Harvey Daily Telegraph
Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author's journey so far Australian Vogue
Poignant and sensitive Stylist
Emin writes with fierce clarity Times Literary Supplement
An extremely well-written and readable book Glasgow Herald
Strangeland should not . . . be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake -- Rachel Cusk Sunday Telegraph
Magical Sunday Times

Tracey Emin was born in 1963 to an English mother and Turkish father, and grew up in Margate. She left school at 15, but later studied Fine Art at Maidstone and went on to the Royal College of Art. She is now an internationally renowned artist whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world. Although known as a visual artist, Tracey Emin's confessional writings have always formed the backbone to her work and in 2005 she published her memoir, Strangeland, drawing together new and revised work from the previous 25 years.

In 2007, she was elected as a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, where she is now a Professor of Drawing and in 2013 she was appointed CBE.

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