Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, William Dalrymple, Margaret Drabble, Simon Callow, Tony Robinson, Tracey Emin, J.K. Rowling, Holly Johnson, Pete Townshend...
Catherine Taylor, Karl Riordan, Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Helen Mort, Gregory Norminton, Naomi Frisby, Tim Etchells, Geoff Nicholson, Desiree Reynolds...
Margaret Drabble on the RomanticsHerself a literary luminary, Drabble illuminates how this love of place fashioned some of the Romantics’ greatest works. She considers the resonances of myth and legend, art and earlier literature that the Romantics f...Loe edasi...
Set between eighteenth century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich, atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a womans fight against the social stigma of the Sixties...Loe edasi...
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, William Dalrymple, Margaret Drabble, Simon Callow, Tony Robinson, Tracey Emin, J.K. Rowling, Holly Johnson, Pete Townshend...
How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of...Loe edasi...
Matthew Holness, Alan Beard, Ramsey Campbell, Bernardine Bishop, Lucie McKnight-Hardy, Margaret Drabble, David Constantine, Mark Haddon, Gaia Holmes, Lara Williams...
Something has fallen away. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject. Following the s...Loe edasi...
A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw and the part it plays in the patchwork of its distinguished authors life. A mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jan-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Penguin USA, ISBN-13: 9780143135630)
In the final months of Jane Austens life, she began work on a new novel about social drama in the small seaside town of Sanditon, once a small fishing village and now a bustling spa town. In the story of Charlotte Heywood, a new arrival, Austen con...Loe edasi...
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, William Dalrymple, Margaret Drabble, Simon Callow, Tony Robinson, Tracey Emin, J.K. Rowling, Holly Johnson, Pete Townshend...
Catherine Taylor, Karl Riordan, Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Helen Mort, Gregory Norminton, Naomi Frisby, Tim Etchells, Geoff Nicholson, Desiree Reynolds...
Bringing together new short stories by ten of the citys most celebrated writers. From young creatives and refugees, to scrap metal collectors and student radicals, these stories offer ten different look-out points from which to gaze down on the ever...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250160058)
One of the Washington Posts 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 and a New York Times Notable Book of 2017From the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many...Loe edasi...
Christopher Bigsby, Rose Tremain, Stephen Fry, Vince Cable, Richard Dawkins, David Almond, Margaret Drabble, Charlie Higson, Eimear McBride, Jane Smiley...
The latest installment of interviews with famous authors transcribed from the UEA Literature Festival and in association with The Arthur Miller Institute...Loe edasi...
The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good death Fran may be old but shes not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoy...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN-13: 9780374134952)
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A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist. Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which i...Loe edasi...
Driven to live life to its fullest while she still can, a housing expert for the elderly balances her challenging career with the cares of her loved ones, in a tale that juxtaposes her interconnected social circle in England against her contacts in a...Loe edasi...
Driven to live life to its fullest while she still can, a housing expert for the elderly balances her challenging career with the cares of her loved ones, in a tale that juxtaposes her interconnected social circle in England against her contacts in a...Loe edasi...
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings...Loe edasi...
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Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through death and old age. Fran takes us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity, and visits her daughter, Poppe...Loe edasi...
A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on it...Loe edasi...
Owls Do Cry is the first novel of one of New Zealands most acclaimed classic writers, Janet Frame. Hailed as a masterpiece on first publication in 1957, it is comparable to Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey...Loe edasi...
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A portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individuals place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry, a small child living in a Yorkshire mining town in 1905, to her granddaughter, list...Loe edasi...
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The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good death....Loe edasi...
Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, anthropology student Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential and compassion when her sunny chil...Loe edasi...
Offers a selection of the authors short stories that often deal with everyday English domestic life and its nuanced emotional undercurrents. AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINALElizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due t...Loe edasi...
Features a young schizophrenic who transports himself, and the reader, through a wondrously transfigured city where the real and the fantastic blend together in a seamless enchantment. In this title, the continual stream and buzz of events is often c...Loe edasi...
