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Helene Hanff, Frank Doel
84 Charing Cross Road

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

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 that …

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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 LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed, …

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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 OSMANIn a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan'…

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Gayl Jones
Corregidora

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No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this' TONI MORRISONI dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the Corregid…

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Barbara Pym
Excellent Women

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INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHMildred 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 gr…

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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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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK NARCISSUS AND THE RIVER'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER'Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is about growth, choice, struggle, and the freedom of…

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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 psych…

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Molly Keane
Good Behaviour

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We kept our heads above the morass, stifled screaming despairs only by the exercise of Good Behaviour.Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family is sinking into a sta…

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Rumer Godden
In this House of Brede

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INTRODUCED BY LAUREN GROFF'Rumer Godden's novels have a timeless shimmer' GUARDIAN'One hundred years after her birth, Rumer Godden's novels still pulse with life' MATTHEW DENNISON, TELEGRAPH'Her craftsman…

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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 TYLERIf Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to b…

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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 YORKERCat…

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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 everyday li…

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Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca

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He did not belong to me at all. He belonged to Rebecca.'The greatest psychological thriller of all time' ERIN KELLY 'Du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings' STEPHEN KI…

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Barbara Pym
Some Tame Gazelle

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INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEKTogether 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, secur…

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Vera Brittain
Testament Of Youth

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In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimagin…

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Rumer Godden
The Dark Horse

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By the author of Black Narcissus and The River'[Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal' ROSIE THOMAS, GUARDIAN'One of our best and mo…

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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.Acerbi…

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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 Renau…

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