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Showing 1 - 12 of 32 results for “margaret drabble”
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  • Margaret Drabble on the Romantics

    by Margaret Drabble ...
    Series series Pocket Perspectives
    A highly acclaimed novelist on the way in which the landscape has both influenced and been represented in British Romantic literature.Margaret Drabble on the Romantics presents an image of Britain as seen through the eyes of some of its most celebrated writers. Many of the Romantics, as well as their successors, are closely associated with particular landscapes—the Wordsworths with the Lake ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Dark Flood Rises

    by Margaret Drabble ...
    NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: ‘masterly’GUARDIAN BEST 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 her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them - her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Witch of Exmoor

    by Margaret Drabble ...
    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: "Part social satire, part thriller, and entirely clever" ( Elle).It is a midsummer's evening in the English countryside, and the three grown Palmer children are coming to the end of an enjoyable meal in the company of their partners and offspring. From this pleasant vantage point they play a dinner-party game: What kind of society would you be willing to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Good Places

    by Margaret Drabble ...
    'There aren't many chroniclers of our older years who do it so well, with such wit and realism and intelligence' TESSA HADLEY'I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work' SALLY ROONEY‘One of Britain’s most dazzling writers’ New York Times'Generous, perceptive and good-humoured' JOAN BAKEWELL'One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around'... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Pure Gold Baby

    by Margaret Drabble ...
    The first new novel in five years from “one of the most versatile and accomplished writers of her generation” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker.Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful, sunny nature, but it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Book of Sheffield

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Gregory Norminton, Geoff Nicholson, Naomi Frisby, Tim Etchells, Johny Pitts, Helen Mort, Desiree Reynolds, Karl Riordan ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves.From its botanical gardens and elegant parks, to the brutalist high-rise estates of Park Hill, and the hinterland nightclubs of ‘Centertainment’, it is a city caught between the forges of the past and the melting pot of the present.Bringing together new short stories from some of the city’s ... Read more

    $10.26 CAD

  • The Pattern In The Carpet

    A Personal History with Jigsaws

    by Margaret Drabble ...
    The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries about jigsaw puzzles — did you know that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Arnold Bennett

    A Biography

    by Margaret Drabble ...
    'Arnold Bennett was born in a street called Hope Street. A street less hopeful it would be hard to imagine.' Thus begins Margaret Drabble's biography of a man whose most famous achievement was to re-create, in such novels as The Old Wives' Tale and Clayhanger, the life, atmosphere and character of the 'Five Towns' region in which he was born and grew up.Arnold Bennett is a very personal book. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Cymbeline

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Narrated by Denis McCarthy, David Rowe-Beddoe, Ian Lang, Terrence Hardiman, Margaret Drabble, full cast ...
    Series series Argo Classics

    Unabridged

    2 hours 58 min

    William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.‘Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.’Cymbeline is believed to be one of Shakespeare's ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • At the Pond

    Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond

    by Jessica J. Lee, Amy Key, So Mayer, Sophie Mackintosh, Ava Wong Davies, Nina Mingya Powles, Deborah Moggach, Sharlene Teo, Leanne Shapton, Esther Freud, Margaret Drabble, Eli Goldstone, Nell Frizzell ...
    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 from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collision

    Stories from the Science of CERN

    by Steven Moffat, Lucy Caldwell, Margaret Drabble, Luan Goldie, Pete Kalu, Lisa Luxx, Adam Marek, Courttia Newland, Désirée Reynolds, Bidisha Mamata, Ian Watson, Stephen Baxter ...
    Series series Science into Fiction
    A decade after the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN still leads the world in the search to uncover what the universe is made of, how it was formed, and what fate may lie in store for it. If there is such a thing as a ‘cutting edge’, it surely lies 100 metres below the Swiss-French border, at the point where the beams collide.As part of a unique collaboration, this ... Read more

    $12.12 CAD

  • A Day In The Life Of A Smiling Woman

    Complete Short Stories

    by Margaret Drabble, Jose Francisco Fernandez ...
    Margaret Drabble’s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony—all are on display here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abroad, love affairs with ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD