The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws, Paperback - Margaret Drabble

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Margaret DrabbleThe Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drab...

Female Symbolic Confinement with Jean Rhys, Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byatt, and Margaret Atwood - Iulia Rosu

Award-winning British novelist Margaret Drabble is renowned for her fiction, stories that gave voice to the new woman of the 1960s and continue to ...

A collection of tales that range from one man's honeymooning epiphany in "Hassan's Tower" to the journeying fantasies of "A Voyage to Cythera", and...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fi reworks, their parents replace it with a second-hand...

It's startling enough to have a phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it talks and reveals that you have a magic carpet on the ...

Reducere. Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to d...

One of the most influential children's writers who ever lived, E. Nesbit deserves a full reappraisal. She once inspired C. S. Lewis and Arthur Rans...

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 an...

Reducere. "The Phoenix and the Carpet" is a 1904 fantasy children's novel by E. Nesbit. The second in a trilogy of novels beginning with "Five Children and I...

Iulia Rosu (n. 1980) a absolvit Facultatea de Relatii Economice Internationale, din cadrul Academiei de Studii Economice Bucuresti, Facultatea de L...

Reducere. 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 l...

An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the SixtiesPu...

Reducere. Since the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs...

Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one familyPublisher: Ca...

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the S...

The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three womenPublisher: Can...

An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of lovePublisher: Canongate BooksAuthor(s): Margaret Drabble...

Reducere. Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman's decis...

Contributor(s): Author: Margaret DrabbleBarbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean ...

Reducere. One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 and a New York Times Notable Book of 2017From the great British novelist Dame Marg...

Reducere. In a "profoundly moving, intellectually acute" novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is "as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh" (Los...

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Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgivenessPublisher: Canongat...

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Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

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Reducere. Anxiety. Addiction. Depression.We associate these words with the challenges of modern life. Rarely do we consider how these conditions shaped past ...

A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and military factors involved.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAutho...

The Middle East represents the greatest threat to world peace. A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and ...

Reducere. In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, pa...

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Reducere. During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. America's hope for national security relied ...

Reducere. THRIFTWOOD is a mixture of personal memoir and cultural and literary criticism, which explores the ideas of the liminal, changing place and liminal...

DescriptionIn Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s, Tom Hayden, a seminal figure in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, documen...

For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores...

Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize...

Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travel...

Reducere. The first book of its kind about what it's like to be a child with ADHD, Hyper is a "haunting narrative that explores the world's most scrutinized ...

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Publisher: Route PublishingNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 131 x 198 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul...

Paperback edition of the latest novel from the bestselling and acclaimed author of }The Pure Gold Baby, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen{ and many ...

'This trot through German culture and history is an engrossing, informative and hilarious read' Sunday Times

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...