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The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love.
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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 abou ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family. 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 ...Show more
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 as it becomes clear that Anna will not be a normal chil ...Show more
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Pure Gold Babywill raise your spirits and break your heart. Anna is the smiling child with special, unknowable qualities, who also presents profound challenges. And Jess is her charismatic single mother. Over the course of decades, we observe how much Jess loves her surprising daughter, who touches ...Show more
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women.
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Set between eighteenth century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich, atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Lady tells a story of first and last love, of evolution and the ebb and flow of time that gives shape to our lives
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 receives an unexpected windfall, Candida maps out a journey she ...Show more
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There - The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor by Elizabeth Taylor; Margaret Drabble (Selected by, Introduction by)
29.95 AUD
49.99 (40% off)
Category: Classics
AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett s uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercur ...Show more