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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and passions of everyday people. From one man's honeymooning epiphany in "Hassan's Tower" to the journeying fantasie ...Show more
A Love Letter to Europe - An Outpouring of Love and Sadness from Our Writers, Thinkers and Artists by Melvyn Bragg; Simon Callow; Tracey Emin; Pete Townshend; Jeffrey Boakye; Onjali Rauf; Tony Robinson; Will Hutton; Margaret Drabble
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Great writers, artists, musicians and thinkers in British life say what Europe means to them: an outpouring of love and sadness. With pieces from Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Alan Hollinghurst, Will Hutton, Holly Johnson, Penelope Lively, Jonathan Meades, Deborah Moggach, Alan M ...Show more
A Love Letter to Europe - An Outpouring of Sadness and Hope Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J. K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and Others by Frank Cottrell Boyce; Melvyn Bragg; William Dalrymple; Margaret Drabble; Simon Callow; Tony Robinson; Tracey Emin; J. K. Rowling; Holly Johnson; Pete Townshend
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine their motives and directions in the brutally prosperous, atrocity-hungry society of Britain.
A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgiveness. In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fair ...Show more
A Writer's Britain by Margaret Drabble
$51.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman, covering all varieties of the British rural and urban landscape. This book presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions and periods, ...Show more
At The Pond: Swimming At The Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble,Esther Freud,Sophie Mackintosh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Floating in the Pond’s silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it’s easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers f ...Show more
Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (Revised Edition) by Margaret Drabble
$45.95 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd, Martin Amis, ...Show more
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties.
Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble
$105.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Companions
The acclaimed sixth edition of the classic guide brought right up to date Includes topics such as the literature of science, censorship, Anglo-Indian literature, gay and lesbian literature, New Criticism Over 140 contributors, including Lisa Appignanesi, Gillian Avery, Chris Baldick, Kate Clanchy, Jonat ...Show more
Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Pure Gold Baby will both raise you up and break your heart, as it follows Anna, a child of special, unknowable qualities, who also presents profound parental challenges. Over decades, we observe her touch the lives and loves of those around her. Margaret Drabble writes with great beauty, wisdom and ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Count ...Show more