Fay Weldon Books

A new collection of short stories from the glitteringly talented author of The Cloning of Joanna May and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. The people in these stories--mothers, lovers, wives, and betrayers--all must make choices, and they all have something to learn.

Clifford Wexford, the rising star of a Sotheby's-like international art-auction house, and Helen Lally, the daughter of an eccentric artist, fall in love at first sight in the '60s and make each other perfectly miserable for the next 20 years. Their passionate squabbles lead to the disappearance of their beautiful three-year-old daughter Nell, whose subsequent bizarre adventures involve her with the motley likes of senile French devil worshippers and kind British drug-dealers. With characteristic arch wit, Fay Weldon spins a supple, modern-day fairytale, replete with heroes and heroines, evil-doers, fairy godmothers, castles and fateful coincidences.

Dracula, Lair of the White Work, Dracula's Guest

This collection of short stories dealing with the perils of love, sex, and marrage includes "In the Great War," "The School Run," and "The Sad Life of the Rich"

From a wickedly funny writer who never fails to amuse comes a memoir that looks back on her life as wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and bon vivant.

Follow Wanda, the tough 30s radical, her daughter Scarlet, unmarried, pregnant and frightened, and Scarlet's friends -- born victims, snobs, obsessive lovers -- in their absurd, nightmarish, often hilariously awful liaisons.

When Rex received his party invitation, he was in a bad temper and tore it up. His sister's tears and his Mother's scolding just made him angrier, so he crawled under the bed. The illustrations take the reader into Rex's dreams of fantastic parties. The author also wrote "Wolf the Mechanical Dog".

In the vengeful mode of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Weldon presents an electrifying tale of a marriage gone bad. After ten years of trying, a young novelist is delighted to learn she is pregnant. But her husband becomes cruel and distant--and accuses her of murdering his "inner child".

"An ordinary person carried to extremes" is how Sandra Harris describes herself, though her outrageous behaviour may make readers doubt this. Fay Weldon has written many books including "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" which was made into a television serial.

Into the lives of four female friends erupts Leslie Beck, an old flame not quite extinguished, who catapults them into their murky past. Leslie is still a man with a life force - a force which he is more than willing to share with old and new friends, provided of course that they are women.

The second novel in Fay Weldon's Love and Inheritance trilogy, following the lives and loves of an aristocratic family at the turn of the nineteenth century.

A chilling tale that interweaves the post-Watergate world of American politics and the way in which our past indiscretions inevitably catch up with us. Isabel Acre's journey through life has taken her from the Australian outback via the beds and alleys of Fleet Street and the seamier side of Washington high life to a comfortable home in London, a reputation as a serious journalist, and a husband in the new chore-sharing, child-rearing mould. Suddenly, however, the past which Isabel had thought safely behind her becomes the source of actual physical danger. With frightening ease, the worlds of political intrigue and murderous conspiracy intrude into the cosiness of her domestic life. Whom can she trust? Man? When she reveals to her husband that she long ago had an affair with a young American senator, a man who is now challenging for the Presidential nomination itself, and that her son is the love-child of that affair, even she cannot foresee the consequences. Love got her into the predicament in which she finds herself; but can love now get her out of it?

A savagely satirical tale of marital revenge. Madeleine wants revenge: Madeleine wants to be remembered: Madeleine wants love. Who doesn't? Madeleine is ex-wife of and chief persecutor to Jarvis, the architect. Why not? She hates him. Hilary is their daughter, growing fatter and lumpier every day under Madeleine's triumphant care, witness to the wrongs her mother suffered. For Jarvis has a clean new life with a clean new wife, Lily, and a nice new baby, Jonathan. The furniture is polished and there is orange juice for breakfast. Jarvis is content, or thinks he is, fending off Madeleine's forays as best he can. Jarvis has a part-time secretary, too, Margot, now the doctor's wife, unremembered from the days of her youth. Margot, unacknowledged wife and mother, accepting, tending, nurturing his children and her own, complaisant in her lot. Until Madeleine, hurling out her dark reproaches from the other side of violent death, uncovers new familial links in the disruption she creates.

The Shrapnel Academy, named after Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the exploding cannonball, is the setting for a modern-day Victorian house party. The occasion is the yearly observance of Wellington Weekend, attended by a curious assortment of visitors who stay in rooms named for military notables and are waited upon by a number of equally unusual Third World servants. All the ingredients are here for a witty romp, and the romp Weldon delivers culminates in absolute ridiculousness.

The third and final instalment in Fay Weldon's Love & Inheritance trilogy sees the Dilbernes frantically preparing for a visit from the Royals.

PRAXIS is a modern classic: the portrait of a woman set in time, yet timeless. We see her first as the innocent Praxis Duveen, aged five; watch her, as the men in her life come and go, through many drastic changes in fortune and circumstance. Until, from a prison both psychological and real, she emerges as Patty Fletcher, considered as bad as a woman can be and yet her own mistress.

A black comedy of manners which treats the pursuit of revenge in a satirical and amusing way. It is the ultimate fantasy of the wronged woman. It has been made into a film and stars Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr.

A novel of urban deceit and rural passion, of doctors, witches, birth and death. 'Many people dream of country cottages. Liffey dreamed for many years, and saw her dream come true one hot Sunday afternoon, in Somerset, in September... A trap closed around her. The getting of the country cottage, not the wanting - that was the trap.' Richard and Liffey, a young married couple, follow their dream of moving out of London to a country cottage in the middle of Somerset. Richard continues to live and work in London, coming to stay with Liffey only on weekends. Pregnant Liffey feels burdened, hampered, at the mercy of these biological impulses beyond her control. Then there are the odd neighbours, the Tuckers, to reckon with, and the looming shadow of Bella, Richard's lover in London, threatening the rural idyll Liffey had for so long imagined. With wit and wisdom, Fay Weldon paints a funny and shocking picture of the conflicts within these seemingly conventional lives, conflicts which seem inevitably to stem from the eternal struggle between male and female.

A collection of journalism from a topical and entertaining author. A cornucopia of a book, Godless in Eden brings together a selection of lectures and essays contributed to newspapers, magazines and books over recent years, revised for this volume, and all highly relevent to today. From the changing face of government, the feminisation of politics, life in Tony Blair’s godless and un-idealogical New Garden of Eden, to whence and whither Feminism via the new cult of Therapism, to our turbulent and benighted royals by way of Roseanne and Jamie Lee Curtis. A final treat in the final section, Growing Up and Moving On, some wonderfully incisive autobiographical snippets of Weldonian life and times.

Bernard Bellamy has done a deal. He has sold out to the devil, in all of its forms. In return, he is promised that all his wishes will be granted, all his desires fulfilled. One of them, young Carmen Wedmore, is proving to be quite a challenge.

Elsa, who has not a penny to her name except the scrapings from last week's pay packet, goes with her rich, 48-year-old friend and employer, Victor, to spend her 19th birthday in the household of his millionaire friend, Hamish.

A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer. ‘Watching Me, Watching You’ was Fay Weldon’s first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story, ‘Alopecia’, can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in ‘Threnody’, a women’s commune can be gently mocked, and the failings of the leading characters are human rather than masculine. Fay Weldon’s observation is always wonderfully acute and ‘Watching Me, Watching You’ is dominated throughout by her humour and intensity of purpose, giving to these stories a marvellous strength and unity. CONTENTS Christmas tree -- Breakages -- Alopecia -- Man with no eyes -- Holy stones -- Threnody -- Angel, all innocence -- Spirit of the house -- Watching me, watching you -- Geoffrey and the Eskimo child -- Weekend -- The fat woman's joke.

Verhalen waarin op humoristische en stekelige wijze wordt beschreven hoe onaangenaam en hypocriet de ene mens kan zijn ten opzichte van de andere.

A spiky, feisty, hilarious collection of stories that expose women's clumsy, often doomed, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life. Abandoned wives remain as lingering presences in the homes of their ex-husband's new girlfriends; beautiful young models find their misdemeanours exposed for all the world to see in the tabloids; middle-aged women get swept off their feet and into the criminal underworld by charismatic con-men; young trophy wives get thrown in jail after over-exuberant cavorting on their private yachts; mothers beg their thirty something career-minded daughters to freeze their eggs in the hope that they may one day bear their grandchildren. Bold, glamorous, sexy, unrepentant, Fay Weldon's heroines offer a quite unique view of the world as they face their trials without fear or trepidation. Both her legions of existing fans and new readers will be enthralled.

A pitch-perfect story of life above and below stairs and an elegy to the last days of aristocracy and Empire.

The author of the novels Life Force, The Hearts and Lives of Men, and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil offers an irreverent, wildly funny, and unerringly persuasive answer to the ever-enticing question: If I ruled the world, what would I do? "A wickedly funny, multilayered treatise on feminism, marriage, sex, journalism, and the class system".--People.

Sir Edwin Rice has decided to divorce Lady Angelica. She has behaved intolerably and is accused of abuse, violence, bestiality and lesbianism. But there is more to Angelica than her husband realizes - she is a wife, a tart, a star, a secretary and a brooding chap called Ajax. She is Everywoman.

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here Esther Wells goes on a diet and the scales fall from her eyes. Depriving themselves of fatty foods, both husband and wife have new perspectives on each other, and the process is one of slow destruction of their marriage. Esther tells in flashback, from the depths of her basement apartment in Earls Court, the history of her marital disaster - in between her consumption of chocolate cake, tinned fruit, sweet sherry and a host of other high-calorie goodies. This novel examines the role of Womanhood. The time is the mid-sixties when sex role stereotypes are being examined and rejected, and Fay Weldon's book reflects the passions, humor, and anger of an era when women's self-analysis entailed a good deal of disruption. This novel depicts the rage and outrage of that traumatic era.

An astonishing novel that probes into the strange world of genetic engineering.

Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern writer responds to her niece's complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant. By turns passionate and ironic, "Aunt Fay" makes Alice think--not only about books and literature, but also life and culture.

Sophia Moore, a 34-year-old film editor in London, navigates her loveless life while believing her only relative is her unpredictable grandmother Felicity. The narrative unfolds with humor, revealing family secrets and the unexpected joys of late-life romance. With vibrant characters and clever storytelling, Fay Weldon delivers a delightful exploration of relationships and the surprises that come with them.

From the hilarious opening to the satisfying final conflagration, Fay Weldon's Worst Fears is a taut, scathing revelation of the nature of marital intimacy. When Alexandra returns from her stint on the London stage to find her husband mysteriously dead of a heart attack and her female friends ominously invested in smoothing out all the complications of the tragedy, she begins to be suspicious. At first she attributes this to grief, then to paranoia. But she soon finds herself starting to crack, crank-calling her friends' psychiatrist, attacking people with kitchen chairs and breaking into their houses, searching furiously for evidence to confirm her husband's rampant adultery and her own worst fears. "A snappy whodunit of the heart....one of Weldon's best novels yet." -- The New York Times Book Review; "With a dash of murder mystery and a wink at Isben's grim tales of ruined marriages, this splendid and spiteful novel shows Fay Weldon to be in as fine form as ever." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer; "A hundred years hence, if people can still read, Weldon's books will likely have the unblunted edge of Jane Austen, an unsentimental Baedeker guide to sexual manners in an ill-mannered age. Fay Weldon breaks taboos like tape at a marathon, and she hasn't stopped running yet." -- Los Angeles Times.

'Elegantly written, sharply perceptive and fantastically good fun' Daily Mail .

A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittering world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare.

Hattie and her partner Martyn hire an au pair named Agnieszka who creates trouble in Hattie's life.

An absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London.

Hardcover with Dustjacket. 329 pages. A group of high-achieving ladies gather at the remote and expensive Castle Spa over the ten days of Christmas and New Year. None of them have met before. As the ladies lounge around in the Jacuzzi, drinking champagne, eating caviar and chocolate, they confess the startling and scandalous stories of their lives.

The wicked stepmother is a classic figure of literature. From "Cinderella" to "Hamlet", she is portrayed as an evil manipulator out to do down her husband's children. Reality is all too often the reverse, with stepchildren using all their cunning to do down daddy's new wife in a no holds barred, down and dirty fight to the death. Being on the receiving end of that kind of attack is no fun at all, as Fay's heroine can tell you. And tell you she does in her only solace - her secret diary that is her lifeline. Fay's unique insights into the workings of the female mind, her comprehensive knowledge of family relationships and her wisdom about life in general are all brought brilliantly to bear in this fairytale for our times.

A new collection of short stories from the glitteringly talented author of The Cloning of Joanna May and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. The people in these stories--mothers, lovers, wives, and betrayers--all must make choices, and they all have something to learn.

They first met as children in 1940s London. Thirty years later, Marjorie, Chloe, and Grace make their way through an almost unrecognizable post-war society, coping with husbands, children, parents, and the messy business of life. Now in her ninth decade, Fay Weldon is one of the foremost chroniclers of our time, a novelist who spoke to an entire generation of women by daring to say the things that no-one else would. Her work ranges over novels, short stories, children's books, nonfiction, journalism, television, radio, and the stage. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.

These stories are aimed at readers of 'Good Housekeeping' magazine - primarily women aged 25 to 55 - and deal with the myriad issues facing women today. Each story is a generous bite size of well-written, self-contained fiction perfectly suited to holiday reading.

An insightful satire follows Nell Bolton, a woman in her forties with a husband in jail, a Valium addiction, and a tyrannical teenage daughter, as she fights for survival amidst the media, feminists, and the literary sharks of yuppie society.

In deze bonte verzameling literaire teksten vol humor en melancholie worden talrijke grenzen overschreden. Letterlijke grenzen tussen landen en culturen, maar ook figuurlijke tussen muziek en politiek, liefde en verraad, gezag en clandestiniteit. Op humoristische wijze overtroeft een doortastende vrouw haar verkrachters; een overledene vertelt hoe hij zijn tijd in de hemel slijt. Melancholieke herinneringen aan de jazzsaxofonist John Coltrarie in New York worden afgewisseld met herinneringen aan een bevriende junk uit de 'scene' in Belgrado. Een zakenvrouw wreekt zich op haar Tivale, de schoonheidskoningin van Zweden; een wanhopige man vermoordt Zijn VTOUW OM zijn eer te redden. Een vertaler vergeet zijn eed en richt daarmee groot onheil aan; een man steelt juwelen en verandert daardoor in een held. De verhalen, gedichten, songteksten en een toneelstuk zijn stuk voor stuk geïllustreerd en voorzien van biografische informatie en foto's van de auteurs. Debuterende en reeds succesvolle schrijvers Uit alle delen van de wereld leverden voor deze bundel originele bijdragen die nog nooit eerder in het Nederlands zijn gepubliceerd.

Nel cuore della notte, Frances sente bussare alla porta: sono i funzionari del nuovo governo, pronti a confiscare le sue proprietà. Un tempo scrittrice di successo, nel 2013 si ritrova povera, sola e anziana, confinata nella sua casa al numero 3 di Chalcot Crescent. Per fuggire dalla realtà, si rifugia nella scrittura, l'arte che le ha dato tutto. Così, ci offre un affresco storico arricchito da cronache quotidiane sulla sua numerosa e strampalata famiglia, narrando con ironia cinquant'anni di eventi cruciali come il crollo del comunismo e la nascita di un nuovo governo tirannico. Non mancano siparietti con il nipote tossico e rivoluzionario, gli amori della sua gioventù, l'astio di una figlia vetero femminista e le tribolazioni dell'altra, sposata a un politico di spicco. Man mano che Frances si immerge nel suo racconto, il confine tra realtà e fantasia diventa labile, alimentando dubbi e timori. Dove vanno a finire gli abitanti del quartiere quando il governo li "ricolloca"? E cosa contiene il Polpettone Nazionale, surrogato di carne per un'Inghilterra indigente? Surreale e intricato, il libro ci trascina in una danza della mente, lasciandoci con la sensazione di aver letto un'opera di grande originalità.

Als die in London gefeierte Bühnenschauspielerin Alexandra Ludd vom plötzlichen Herztod ihres Mannes erfährt, eilt sie sofort zum Familienwohnsitz aufs Land. Bald muss sie erkennen, dass in ihrer Familie nichts so war, wie sie gedacht hatte.

Nackt lesen macht Laune. Für diese außergewöhnliche Sammlung erotischer Geschichten haben zwanzig bekannte britische Autorinnen alle Hüllen fallengelassen und beweisen, frau kann über Sex schreiben – und zwar humorvoll, unverkrampft und herrlich unterhaltsam. Das Ergebnis: zwanzig ganz besondere Gutenachtgeschichten für Erwachsene. Schlüpfen Sie unter die Laken – süße Träume sind garantiert! «Unverkrampft sexy.» (Glamour)

Een vrouw neemt wraak op haar overspelige man.

Bissiger und frecher Roman über Annette und Spicer, deren über 10jährige Ehe durch die Machenschaften zweier unseriöser Psychotherapeuten zerbrochen wird.

In der Aufbruchsstimmung der 70er Jahre gründen 4 Freundinnen einen Verlag, der als erster nur von Frauen betrieben wird und nur Bücher für Frauen herausgibt. Was nach aussen als Bollwerk gegen die männliche Vorherrschaft aussieht, gestaltet sich im Innern nicht immer harmonisch.

Eine Handvoll Powerfrauen verbringt Weihnachten in einem eleganten Wellness-Spa. Bei Kaviar und Champagner erzählen sie einander im Whirlpool ihre Lebensgeschichten … Unter anderem sind dabei: eine Verschwörungstheoretikerin, eine transsexuelle Richterin, eine Ex-Pfarrersfrau, die von einem Poltergeist verfolgt wird, eine Psychoanalytikerin, die ihren Ehemann vergiftet hat, eine Manikürespezialistin aus Liverpool, die von einem Scheich entführt wurde. Und Phoebe, eine Schriftstellerin in den besten Jahren. Sie ist hier, weil ihr Mann erst das Haus unbewohnbar gemacht hat (typisch Mann: er hat vergessen, den Wasserhahn der Badewanne zuzudrehen) und dann ans andere Ende der Welt zu seiner kranken Mutter eilen musste – oder hat er dort in Wirklichkeit anderes vor? Phoebe wird allmählich misstrauisch. Fürs Erste hört sie sich die Erzählungen der anderen Damen an. Und die haben es in sich: schräge Geschichten von Ehrgeiz, Eifersucht, Intrigen, Mord und Totschlag - bissig, witzig, gemein, grotesk.

Fay Weldon beleuchtet mit Witz, Ironie und Sarkasmus die verschiedenen Rollen der Frau in der Gesellschaft in ihren Erzählungen.

Von Harrison, Sarah ; Weldon, Fay ; Keller, Claudia 607 S.

In diesen vierzehn Erzählungen aus den Jahren 1981-91 geht es um die Erfahrungen von Frauen im Ehe- und Familienalltag. Enthält u.a.: Der Mann ohne Augen. Krankhafter Haarausfall. Angel, in aller Unschuld. Schau zurück, wenn du nach vorn schaust. Wochenende. Im Grossen Krieg. Geburtstag. Auf dem Lande.

Angela Praesent (1945–2009) war Verlagslektorin, Übersetzerin und Schriftstellerin. Fay Weldon, geboren 1931 in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, ist Autorin von Romanen, Drehbüchern und Theaterstücken.

Jünger, dünner, schöner - Grace kann nicht anders als sie zu hassen, die glamouröse Rivalin, die ihr ihren Mann Barley ausgespannt hat. Sie sinnt auf Rache, vorerst erfolglos. Doch dann wendet sich das Blatt, und Baulöwe Barley muss feststellen, dass nicht alles Gold ist, was glänzt: Hätte er zum Beispiel geahnt, dass seine Geliebte für ein Bulgari- Collier buchstäblich über Leichen geht, wäre er wohl bei seiner Frau geblieben. „Ein herrlich verrückter Roman über Grace und die wundersamen Wege der Liebe.“ Für Sie „Die böse Fay versteht es wunderbar, zu entzaubern.“ Diva „Der beste Reklame-Roman der Welt.“

Als een jonge Londense vrouw haar oma vertelt dat ze haar man wil verlaten voor een filmacteur, maakt ze daarmee geesten uit hun Nieuw-Zeelandse familieverleden los.

Keuze van verhalen van buitenlandse auteurs uit het fonds van de uitgeverijen Bert Bakker en Prometheus.

Groteskní vyprávění o nevydařené oslavě narozenin vynálezce dělostřeleckého šrapnelu zaujme vylíčením mikrosvěta, v němž najednou začnou vřít problémy, odedávna hýbající lidskou společností.

Jednoho dnes se Sapfo objeví přede dveřmi psychoanalytické ordinace, kde pracuje její matka, a rychle jí předá rukopis se slovy, že jde o její deníky. Populární anglická autorka tak začíná příběh ženy, kterou všichni odrazovali, aby se vdala za vdovce Gavina. Je pro ni moc starý, říkali jedni, jiní zase upozorňovali na možnost, že chlap si vyhlédnul jen její dům. A že prý jí jeho děti ze života udělají peklo. To je všechno možné, ale citům neporučíš.

Hrdinkou románu britské autorky je dívka Elsa, která se zamiluje do ženatého muže. Zklamaná prožívá další aférku s milionářem, z níž odchází využitá a bez iluzí. Její protihráčkou je milionářova žena Gemma, která sice dosáhla bohatství, ale za cenu psychického i faktického zmrzačení.