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Helene Hanff, Frank Doel
84 Charing Cross Road

Virago Modern Classics

The true story of the love affair between the author and the sellers of rare books at the address of the title.

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Muriel Spark
A Far Cry From Kensington

Virago Modern Classics

I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel. [large quote] When publishing assistant and war widow Nancy Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett tha…

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Barbara Pym
A Glass Of Blessings

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INTRODUCED BY CLARE CHAMBERS 'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILIP LARKIN Wilmet Forsyth is well dress…

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Barbara Pym,
An Academic Question

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INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS 'I am a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN In a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband A…

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Gayl Jones
Corregidora

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I dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the Corregidora woman dancing. Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora…

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Barbara Pym
Excellent Women

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INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the …

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Nettie Jones
Fish Tales

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A provocative, sharp-voiced and sometimes shocking rediscovered classic about desire, power and female sexuality - the last book acquired by Toni Morrison.

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Rumer Godden
Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy

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As she moved away towards the chapel a puff of wind caught her veil, blowing it back, and they saw she had a scar on her left cheek . . . The Sisters of Béthanie, a French order of Dominican nuns, dedica…

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Susanna Kaysen
Girl, Interrupted

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Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. In 1967, after a session with a ps…

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Rumer Godden
In this House of Brede

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[large quote] 'People think we renounce the world. We don't. We renounce its ways but we are still very much in it and it is very much in us' Pax is the motto of Brede Abbey - but it is not an easy peace…

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Barbara Pym
Jane And Prudence

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INTRODUCED BY JILLY COOPER 'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair …

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Barbara Pym
Less Than Angels

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INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS 'Her best [novels] are sheer delight, and all of them companionable. Quiet, paradoxical, funny and sad, they have the iron in them of permanence too' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER …

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Barbara Pym
No Fond Return Of Love

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INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING 'One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself' SHIRLEY HAZZARD 'Pym has a unique eye and ear for the small poignancies and comedies of everyda…

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Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca

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He did not belong to me at all, he belonged to Rebecca. . . Everyone knows that Maxim de Winter was obsessed with his glamorous wife - and devastated by her tragic death. So when he proposes to a shy, an…

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Barbara Pym
Some Tame Gazelle

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INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes nothing better than to make a fuss of new curates, sec…

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Rumer Godden
The Dark Horse

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'All horses can walk - some badly, some well, but to a few is given a gift of movement feline in its grace, a slouching, flowing continuous movement that is a joy to watch' In 1930s Calcutta, a beautiful…

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Fran Lebowitz
The Fran Lebowitz Reader

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Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to actually sit down and write. Acer…

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Fran Lebowitz
The Fran Lebowitz Reader

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'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' David Sedaris 'She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour' Martin Scorsese A…

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Mary Renault
The Persian Boy

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'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers' HILARY MANTEL 'Nowhere else in fiction have Alexander's beauty and charisma blazed with such potency' TOM HOLLAND 'Mary R…

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Ann Petry
The Street

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From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in . . . New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is deter…

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