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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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.
At The Pond: Swimming At The Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble,Esther Freud,Sophie Mackintosh
$24.99 NZD
Category: World History | 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
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brought up in a stifling, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and travels to London. There, she meets Clelia and the rest of the Denham family. But while she will do anything to join their circle, she gives no thought to the chaos that she may cause. ...Show more
Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble
$120.00 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
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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: World 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
The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Two years ago novelist Stephen Cox vanished to the east. There had been postcards, then silence: now Liz has received this strange parcel of jottings, bills, pictures and human bones.
The Millstone (Penguin Decades) by Margaret Drabble
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of ...Show more
The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Simon Camish is an embittered, timid barrister, too busy with his own problems to take note of Rose Vassiliou across a dinner party table. But only a few years before, Rose had frequently been in the news, an heiress who turned her back on family money in the name of independence.
The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This is a beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it plays in the puzzle of its distinguished author's life. It is a mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling. James Boswell described the 'innocent soothing relief from melancholy' of pl ...Show more