Maggie Gee is the author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes), and a memoir, My Animal Life. She is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Maggie Gee was awarded an OBE in 2012 for services to literature.
15 Ebooks bởi Maggie Gee
Maggie Gee: Flood
President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting …
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Maggie Gee: My Animal Life
How do you become a writer, and why? Maggie Gee's journey starts a long way from the literary world in a small family in post-war Britain. At seventeen, Maggie goes, a lamb to the slaughter, to …
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Maggie Gee: My Cleaner
Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, …
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Maggie Gee: My Driver
Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies from London to Uganda for an African writers’ conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the succe …
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Maggie Gee: The White Family
Alfred White, a London park keeper, rules his home with a mixture of rigidity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. For years, Alfred’s daughter Shirley and her black partner Elroy ha …
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Maggie Gee: The Ice People
It’s the middle of the twenty-first century, and the next Ice Age has suddenly sent global warming into reverse. Saul is one of the Ice People, the threatened peoples of the northern hemisphere, who, …
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Maggie Gee: Grace
Paula is a victim of mysterious harassment. She lives near the railway line that carries nuclear waste through the heart of London and feels curiously, constantly unwell. Grace, her remarkable eighty …
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Maggie Gee: Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school a …
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Maggie Gee: Blood
Who attacked Dad? When a corrupt, brutal dentist, Albert Ludd, is found battered and bloody after failing to attend a memorial party for his youngest son, suspicion falls on the dentist’s other child …
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Maggie Gee: Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
‘I have been dragged through time, summoned like a book requisitioned from a distant library, ” says Virginia Woolf, “resurrected” by modern-day author, Angela Lamb, working on Woolf manuscripts in …
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Maggie Gee: Light Years
Lottie Lucas is the luckiest person she knows. She has looks, money, three houses and a teenage son she adores …So why is her husband Harold walking out on her? Light Years is also about zoos and t …
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Maggie Gee: Where are the Snows
Christopher and Alexandra’s passion for each other raises eyebrows and invites envy. This beautiful, blinkered couple do the unthinkable and run away from home, abandoning their two teenage children. …
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Martyn Bedford & Kate Clanchy: Protest
Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates i …
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Maggie Gee: The Red Children
It’s the 2030s in Ramsgate and four people who don’t look quite human are found sitting, naked, in the early spring sunlight on the quay of the quiet south coast resort. The locals are puzzled – the …
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Maggie Gee: The Blue
‘…the joy of reading Maggie Gee.’ – The Observer The people in The Blue, Maggie Gee’s first collection of short stories, try and often fail to understand the world, freeing themselves by small acts o …
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