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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: Essays
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
Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
37.00 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 Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble
45.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
Based on the best-selling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Discursive featur ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly' GUARDIANBEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that h ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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 Gifts of War by Margaret Drabble
3.99 NZD
7.00 (43% off)
Category: Classic Books
'Her feelings for the child redeemed her from bitterness, and shed some light on the dark industrial terraces and the waste lands of the city's rubble.' One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Margaret Drabble is an unmatched observer of postwar English lives, portraying social change, se ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble (Editor)
99.95 NZD
125.00 (20% off)
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Companions Ser.
Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literaure, published in 1932, was the book that began Oxford's celebrated Companion series. In its various editions in the half-century since then, it has enjoyed an enormously faithful following and unflagging sales (over 400,000 to date). Now, for ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
24.95 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
In 1912, a child in a Yorkshire mining town studies for the Cambridge entrance exam so she can escape to another life. Decades later Faro, her granddaughter, returns. Faro?s father was the son of refugees who fled European unrest. But for all her exotic ancestry and glamour, has she travelled any furthe ...Show more
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Written in two parts - in the first, an 18th century Korean Queen tells the story of a difficult marriage to the violent Crown Prince. Her ghost narrates the story 200 years later. The second half deals with an academic on a conference who has an affair - and the similarities the women share.
The Sea Lady : A late romance by Margaret Drabble
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love. Ha ...Show more
The Sea Lady : A late romance by Margaret Drabble
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When Humphrey and Ailsa met as children, he was already drawn to marine biology
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
26.95 NZD
28.00 (3% off)
Category: Fiction
Candida Wilton arrives in London ? alone, divorced and without much money. Yet she is filled with a strange excitement ? what might happen to her now in her final years? Prepared to fill her empty life with little events and pleasures ? trips to a gym, visits to her reading group ? she finds her horizon ...Show more