Excellent Women, Paperback - Barbara Pym

'One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century' Alexander McCall SmithPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): B...

Reducere. Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spin...

A range of beautifully produced products celebrating the heritage of the Virago Modern Classics list.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): ...

Probably Pym's most famous novel'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin

Reducere. DescriptionBarbara Pym's sister Hilary teams with cookbook author Honor Wyatt to bring together this mouthwatering collection of family recipes, me...

From the author of Jane and Prudence, and Excellent WomenPublisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Barbara PymNumber of pages: 210Publication date: 2013Di...

Genteel North Oxford is riven by gossip and scandal in Barbara Pym's exquisitely entertaining comedy.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): ...

'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the...

A delightful comedy of manners, An Academic Question is prime Barbara PymPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Barbara PymNumber of pages: ...

'A modern Jane Austen' Alexander McCall SmithPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Barbara PymNumber of pages: 272Collection: Virago Modern...

This volume includes an early novel and three novellas, which were discovered and published after Barbara Pym's death in 1980.Publisher: Little, Br...

A charming and funny tale of match-making misadventures by an author whose fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.Publ...

A charming and funny tale of parish life by an author whose many fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.Publisher: Lit...

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same ...

Reducere. Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster...

Barbara Pym was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978 and is the quintessential VMC author. Following on from the huge success of JANE AND PRUDE...

'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the...

Reducere. Thanks to his wifes money, Adam Marsh-Gibbon leads a charmed life writing poetry and novels celebrated mostly by his fellow residents in the town o...

'One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself' Shirley HazzardPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Barbar...

Reducere. The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life--a literary delight for fans of Jane ...

Reducere. Three lonely people come together in this poignant, witty novel of star-crossed romance from the New York Times-bestselling author of Jane and Prud...

Introduction1 Elements of Continuity2 After Oxford: The War Years3 Crampton Hodnet: The Continuous Cycle4 Some Tame Gazelle: Continuity and Content...

A sweeping, multi-generational saga for fans of Downton Abbey, set around the stately home of Cavendon Hall as the roaring twenties change the fami...

Reducere. From blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a stunning saga of love and loyalty set in early twentieth-century England. Caven...

Reducere. Barbara Hannah was a straightforward, modest, yet a grand woman, a lover of literature, and a colleague and friend of C. G. Jung, Emma Jung, and Ma...

The authors of the international bestsellers WHY MEN DON'T LISTEN AND WOMEN CAN'T READ MAPS and THE DEFINTIVE BOOK OF BODY LANGUAGE teach strategie...

Reducere. Though women have long felt kinship with animals, in the past, they seldom participated in the study of them. Now, as more women make animals the s...

Reducere. Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, E...

Reducere. In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women's reproductive healthcare and offers a susta...

Aikido For Women: The Underlying Principles and Why Women Have the Advantage by Barbara Frentsos Butler Unbelievable! A petite, eighty plus-year-ol...

Reducere. In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in...

From Homer to Tim O'Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are ...

Reducere. No single individual did more to promote sea turtle research and conservation than Archie Carr (1909-1987). So entwined did he become with these cr...