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ISBN: 9780141196046 - A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 0141196041 ISBN13: 9780141196046
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Jun 2011
Novelist, critic and biographer, Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. This collection presents her complete short fiction, spanning four decades, from 1964 to 2000. It includes stories, like 'The Dower House at... More

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ISBN: 9780141197272 - Jerusalem the Golden

Jerusalem the Golden
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 0141197277 ISBN13: 9780141197272
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Nov 2011
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... More

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The Seven Sisters
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 0141197293 ISBN13: 9780141197296
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Nov 2011
Candida Wilton has been ignored by her husband and children for years, before being displaced by a younger woman. Moving to London, alone, divorced and without much money, it seems she will now enjoy a life only of small pleasures. When she... More

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The Gifts of War
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 0141195959 ISBN13: 9780141195957
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Feb 2011
One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, the author is an unmatched observer of postwar English lives, portraying social change, sexual liberation, landscape, class and the messy complications of human relationships with intricacy... More

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The Millstone
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 0141041722 ISBN13: 9780141041728
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Re-issue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2010
Set in a London not yet quite swinging, where sexual liberation is still on its way, this novel follows the progress of Rosamund Stacey, who becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand, and must adapt to life as a single mother ... More

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The Needle's Eye
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 0141197285 ISBN13: 9780141197289
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Nov 2011
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... More

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The Juniper Tree
Barbara Comyns, Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 1907429190 ISBN13: 9781907429194
Publisher: Capuchin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Oct 2011

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The Sea Lady
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 0141027452 ISBN13: 9780141027456
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Aug 2007
Humphrey and Ailsa meet by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly in love. Half a lifetime passes... More

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The Red Queen
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 014101816X ISBN13: 9780141018164
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Aug 2005
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence, and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. More

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ISBN: 9780500514931 - A Writer's Britain

A Writer's Britain
Margaret Drabble

ISBN10: 0500514933 ISBN13: 9780500514931
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Sep 2009
"Deserves to become a classic. . . . It greatly enriches one's sense of the British countryside to see it this way, through the eyes of poets and novelists down the centuries."-Christian Science Monitor The love of place is endemic in English... More

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