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Nell Frizzell is a freelance writer and casual lifeguard. She has written for, among others, the Guardian, VICE, the Telegraph, Elle, Grazia, the Observer and is a Vogue columnist. She spent two happy summers standing on the deck of the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond as a lifeguard. Nell has also featured several times on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Short Cuts and as a guest on Radio 5 Live, BBC London and (surprisingly often) on BBC Radio Ulster. As well as journalism, Nell has written and performed comedy, is a seamstress and knitter, and spends an inordinate amount of time trying to teach her baby to love the outdoors as much as she does.




58 Ebooks tarafından Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble: Arnold Bennett
'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 achieve …
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Paul Ableman: I Hear Voices
Paul Ableman's modern masterpiece was first published by the Olympia Press of Paris in 1958, to instant acclaim. The narrator of I Hear Voices is a young schizophrenic who transports himself, an …
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Paul Ableman: As Near as I Can Get
First published in 1962 As Near as I Can Get was Paul Ableman's follow up to his critically acclaimed debut I Hear Voices. Following Alan Peebles, a young man struggling to become a poet, As Nea …
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Paul Ableman: Vac
'This book seems to be about us. Within a day or two of starting it I devised a title: VAC… The subtle idea was to fuse the suggestion of holiday or vacation with that of vacuum…'Paul A …
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Paul Ableman: Twilight of the Vilp
The hero of Paul Ableman's Vilp (1962) is Clive Witt, a novelist in search of a hero for his new novel. He advertises for suitable applicants, and from seventy-three replies he selects three: Pr …
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Paul Ableman: Tornado Pratt
Tornado Pratt is the last of the old-style American tycoons, one who has lived his life with ferocious vigour through the vacillating fortunes of the twentieth-century USA. Paul Ableman's novel …
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Jessica J. Lee & Amy Key: At the Pond
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 …
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Janet Frame: Owls Do Cry
‘Owls Do Cry remains innovative and relevant’ GUARDIAN ‘Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious’ HILARY MANTEL’Her dark, eloquent song captured my heart …
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Margaret Drabble: Pure Gold Baby
An “achingly wise” novel about the challenges of motherhood: “Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book” (The Wall Street Journal). &# …
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Margaret Drabble: Summer Bird-Cage
Attractive and witty, Sarah has just graduated from Oxford and started a new job at the BBC. As she immerses herself in the excitement of 1960s London, her beautiful older sister, Louise, marries the …
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Margaret Drabble: Waterfall
Jane and Malcolm Grays marriage is characterized by sexual unhappiness and the growing apathy they both feel toward one another. When Jane is confined to bed rest while pregnant with their second chi …
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Margaret Drabble: Radiant Way
Liz Headleand, Esther Breuer, and Alix Bowen have been friends since Cambridge. Twenty-five years later, life has led them all down very different paths. Liz is a successful and well-known psychiatri …
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Margaret Drabble: Seven Sisters
An Englishwoman at a crossroads in her life takes an unexpected path in this “teasingly clever new novel” by the author of The Millstone (Publisher Weekly).Candida Wilton—a woman re …
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Margaret Drabble: Pattern in the Carpet
This unique blend of memoir and history takes “a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles . . . charming [and] fascinating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Awa …
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Margaret Drabble: Millstone
The story of an upper-middle-class unwed mother in 1960s London, from a novelist who is “often as meticulous as Jane Austen and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh” (Los Angeles Times).   In a …
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Margaret Drabble: Red Queen
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara does …
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Margaret Drabble: Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman
Short fiction from “a fastidious chronicler of the vagaries of women’s lives in England since the early nineteen-sixties” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker).   In stories that …
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Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
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Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen: Emma
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Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
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Margaret Drabble: Pure Gold Baby
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 studen …
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Margaret Drabble: The Pure Gold Baby
The Pure Gold Baby is the story of Anna, a little girl with a luminescent quality, her mother, Jess, and the community that envelops them. A happy child, Anna is the unchanging core of this journey s …
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Margaret Drabble: The Millstone
First published in 1965, The Millstone tells the story of Rosamund Stacey, who gets pregnant after a one night stand when she loses her virginity. An academic, Rosamund socialises in liberal, literar …
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Margaret Drabble: Natural Curiosity
January 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London to Yorkshire. There, she regularly visits a mass-murderer in a high-security prison. But has her natural curiosity in his motives and character cre …
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Barbara Comyns: The Juniper Tree
Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, The Juniper Tree is a haunting and beautifully written fable by the acclaimed author of The Vet’s Daughter. In their idyllic garden, Gertru …
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Margaret Drabble: Red Queen
Set in 18th century Korea and the present day, Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen is a rich and atmospheric novel about love, and what it means to be remembered.200 years after being plucked from obscu …
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Jane Austen: Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon
Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century’s greatest authors, Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in Pengu …
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Margaret Drabble: Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman
Novelist, critic and biographer, Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. This collection shows her to be a leading practitioner of the art of the short story, present …
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Margaret Drabble: Gifts of War
‘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 gene …
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Margaret Drabble: Witch of Exmoor
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 th …
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Margaret Drabble: Peppered Moth
The prize-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises offers an “absorbing” portrait of three generations of women—inspired by her own family (The New York Times Book Review).   In …
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Margaret Drabble: Middle Ground
A ‘;marvelous’ novel about a woman’s psychological battle with the realities of midlife (The New York Times Book Review). Witty and endearingly neurotic, Kate Armstrong has hit a certain ageand the c …
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Margaret Drabble: Natural Curiosity
An “engrossing” novel following three women as they confront the darkness and danger of their world, by the author of The Radiant Way (People).   Sweeping from smart London townhouse …
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Margaret Drabble: Ice Age
Just thirty-eight-years-old, Anthony Keatings already survived both a divorce and a heart attack. He has left the BBC for the dangerous life of property speculation in the boom-and-bust 1970s, and is …
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Margaret Drabble: Gates of Ivory
A woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this “very smart” and suspenseful novel (The New York Times Book Review).   Liz Headleand is one of London&rsq …
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Margaret Drabble: Garrick Year
From the Golden PEN Award–winning author: A “well-written, entertaining” dark comedy of a marriage on the rocks in 1960s London (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times).   Emma …
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Margaret Drabble: Realms of Gold
An archaeologist struggles to unearth her own true passions in the ‘;richest, most absorbing novel’ by the author of The Dark Flood Rises (Joyce Carol Oates). Frances Wingate is one of England’s most …
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Margaret Drabble: The Peppered Moth
Now available in e Book.One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations of her …
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Margaret Drabble: The Radiant Way
Now available in e Book.1979. Three old Cambridge friends are brought together at a party to celebrate New Year”s Eve, and the end of a decade. A portentous moment. A moment to reflect on what had s …
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Margaret Drabble: The Gates of Ivory
Now available in e Book.While opening her post one dark morning, Liz Headleand was surprised to come across a package containing part of a human finger bone.When Liz Headleand receives a mysterious p …
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Various & Philip Ardagh: Love Letter to Europe
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 inclu …
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Margaret Drabble: The Pattern in the Carpet
In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime – the jigsaw. The result is a …
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Margaret Drabble & Tim Etchells: Book of Sheffield
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 Hi …
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Jane Austen: Sanditon and Other Stories
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H. G. Wells: Ann Veronica
Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to lea …
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Margaret Drabble: A Summer Bird-Cage
In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fairfax. Sarah, recently grad …
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Margaret Drabble: Jerusalem the Golden
Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and moves to London. There, she meets Clelia and the rest of the brilliant and c …
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Margaret Drabble: The Needle”s Eye
Simon Camish, a resentful insecure barrister in a stifling marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Now, se …
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Jane Austen: Persuasion
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Margaret Drabble: Un día en la vida de una mujer sonriente
Esposas sin maridos, madres y hermanas, mujeres que se debaten entre el arte y la familia. Amor, vanidad y soledad. Una madre trabajadora que puede con todo y acaba sus enloquecidos días con una semp …
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Margaret Drabble: The Sea Lady
Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adul …
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Margaret Drabble: The Red Queen
The princess is taking her over, bodily and mentally. Dr Babs Halliwell is no longer herself. A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In her diaries, she chronicles …
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Margaret Drabble: Mühlstein
Rosamunde macht sich nicht viel aus der Liebe. Die wohl einzige Jungfrau im London der Swinging Sixties hätte zwar mehr als genug Gelegenheiten für heiße Affären,  sitzt aber lieber über den Büche …
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Stephen Baxter & Lucy Caldwell: Collision
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 li …
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