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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
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$29.99 AUD
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 Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$24.95 AUD
Category: General 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 Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$25.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Bawtry family has been in South Yorkshire for generations when Bessie is born just before the turn of the last century. The Bawtrys have been content with their humble lot, but Bessie longs for the freedom promised by a new beginning. However, when she succeeds in being admitted to Cambridge and asc ...Show more
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women.
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
$29.95 AUD
Category: General 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 Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
$24.95 AUD
Category: General 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
The Witch Of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble
$16.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Freda Haxby is as famous for her writing as she is for her eccentricities. But for Daniel Palmer, Rosemary, Grace and their families, she is a monster mother. This is the story of an end-of-the-century family whose comfortable lives are disrupted by a succession of sinister events.
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