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Margaret Drabble

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 2010

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 sales? -- Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to London together, the books they read, the jigsaws they completed. She offers penetrating sketches of her parents, her siblings, and her children; she shares her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, on art and writing, on aging and memory. And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. This is a memoir like no other.

Margaret Drabble

The Millstone

Editura: Harvest Books

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Margaret Drabble s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman s decision to become a mother. "

Margaret Drabble

The Seven Sisters

Editura: Harvest Books

Anul aparitiei: 2003

When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at risk-taking in her new life. She begins friendships of sorts with other women-widowed, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then there is a surprise pension-fund windfall . . . A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best.

Margaret Drabble (Author)

The Peppered Moth

Editura: HARVEST BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2002

In the early 1900s, Bessie Bawtry, a small child with big notions, lives in a South Yorkshire mining town in England. Precocious and refined in a land of little ambition and much mining grime, Bessie waits for the day she can escape the bleak, coarse existence her ancestors had seldom questioned. Nearly a century later Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, is listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has returned to the depressed little town in which Bessie grew up and wonders at the families who never left. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden unexplained resurgence. The Peppered Moth is a brilliant novel, full of irony, sadness, and humor.

Margaret Drabble (Author)

The Needle's Eye

Editura: HARVEST BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news. Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. Despite all the efforts and sneers of her friends, she refuses to move from her slum house in a decaying neighborhood to which she has become attached. Gradually, Simon becomes aware that Rose is a woman of remarkable integrity and courage. He is drawn into her affairs when her husband takes legal action to reopen the question of custody of the children-a scheme for getting his wife back. And, while the precise nature of their ties eludes him, Simon comes to realize that Rose and her Greek ex-husband are forever and inextricably bound to each other.

Margaret Drabble (Author)

The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy

Editura: HARVEST BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2005

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 doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. When a Korean man Barbara meets at her hotel offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown princess, Barbara tours the royal courts and develops a strong affinity for everything related to the princess and her mysterious life. Barbara's time in Korea goes quickly, but captivated by her experience and wanting to know more about the princess, she wonders if her life can ever be the way it was before.

Margaret Drabble (Author)

The Sea Lady: A Late Romance

Editura: HARVEST BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying--they take stock of their lives, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements, romantic and otherwise. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender. Their mutual pasts unfold in an exquisite portrait of English social life in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Margaret Drabble (Author)

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories

Editura: MARINER BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2012

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 houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics, cultural TV programs, in stories that are perceptive, sharp, and funny. With an introduction by the Spanish academic Jose Fernandez that places the stories in the context of her life and her novels, this collection is a wonderful recapitulation of a masterly career."

Drabble Margaret

The Pattern in the Carpet A Personal History with Jigsaws

Editura: Canongate Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2020

A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw and the part it plays in the patchwork of its distinguished author's life. A mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling Page dim. 198 x 129 x 23 Series: Canons Weight: 256 grams

Drabble Margaret

The Sea Lady

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love. Page dim. 197 x 129 x 23 Weight: 250 grams

Drabble Margaret, Hensher Philip, Mort Helen, Norminton Gregory, Frisby Naomi, Etchells Tim, Nicholson Geoff, Reynolds Desiree, Riordan Karl

The Book of Sheffield A City in Short Fiction

Editura: Comma Press

Anul aparitiei: 2019

Bringing together new short stories by ten of the city's most celebrated writers. From young creatives and refugees, to scrap metal collectors and student radicals, these stories offer ten different look-out points from which to gaze down on the ever-changing face of the 'Steel City'. Page dim. 129 x 196 x 10 Series: Reading the City Weight: 150 grams

Campbell Ramsey, Bishop Bernardine, McKnight-Hardy Lucie, Drabble Margaret, Constantine David, Haddon Mark, Holmes Gaia, Williams Lara, Beard Alan

The New Abject Tales of Modern Unease

Editura: Comma Press

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Following the success of Comma's award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject - Julia Kristeva's theory of the psychoanalytic, intimate abject, and Georges Bataille's societal equivalent - with visceral stories of modern unease. Page dim. 131 x 197 x 28 Series: Comma Modern Horror Weight: 344 grams

Drabble Margaret

The Pure Gold Baby

Editura: Canongate Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Margaret Drabble returns with a powerful novel of unbreakable love, enduring friendships and a society changing forever Page dim. 197 x 128 x 19 Weight: 216 grams

Drabble Margaret

The Middle Ground

Editura: Orion Publishing Co

Anul aparitiei: 2020

A brilliant and witty novel about a group of friends in their middle years, caught between children and parents, and the pleasures and dangers of London life. Page dim. 198 x 129 Weight: 546 grams

Drabble Margaret

The Waterfall

Editura: Orion Publishing Co

Anul aparitiei: 2020

A powerful novel of sexual awakening and obsession from one of the nation's best-loved novelists. Page dim. 198 x 129 Weight: 566 grams

Drabble Margaret

The Ice Age

Editura: Orion Publishing Co

Anul aparitiei: 2020

A brilliantly ambitious state of the nation novel from one of Britain's best-loved authors. Page dim. 198 x 129 Weight: 566 grams

Drabble Margaret

The Realms Of Gold

Editura: Orion Publishing Co

Anul aparitiei: 2020

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). Page dim. 198 x 129 Weight: 566 grams

Drabble Margaret

The Garrick Year

Editura: Orion Publishing Co

Anul aparitiei: 2020

A deliciously entertaining novel about the wife of an actor, and what happens when she decides she'd like a life of her own. Page dim. 198 x 129 Weight: 566 grams

Drabble Margaret, Freud Esther, Mackintosh Sophie

At the Pond Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond

Editura: Daunt Books

Anul aparitiei: 2019

Page dim. 156 x 140 x 14 Weight: 196 grams

Boyce Frank Cottrell, Dalrymple William, Drabble Margaret, Callow Simon, Robinson Tony, Emin Tracey, Rowling J.K., Johnson Holly, Townshend Pete, Bragg Melvyn

A Love Letter to Europe An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others

Editura: Hodder & Stoughton

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Important figures in British life talk about what Europe means to them Page dim. 198 x 129 Weight: 296 grams