Fay Weldon Book order (chronological)

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

From a lioness of British literature, an absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and – worse – intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic London publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another's child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months. Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate to the reader, along with that of London between the wars: a city soaked in drizzle, peopled with flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked servicemen and aristocrats desperately clinging onto the past. Inventive, witty and empathetic, this is a spellbinding historical novel from one of the foremost novelists of our time.

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

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.

The third and final installment in Fay Weldon's Love & Inheritance trilogy sees the Dilbernes frantically preparing for a visit from the Royals The year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion into a palace fit for a king. Just as well the family fortunes have been restored, but money can't solve everything--not even a kidnapping. The servants refuse to condone the King's morals; Isobel's daughter, Lady Rosina--now widowed and wealthy--insists on publishing a scandalous book, and the mis-spent pasts of Viscount Arthur and his Irish-American wife Minnie rear up to blacken the family name. When fate deals a hand in the middle of the shooting party, Isobel must consider not only her leading position in Society, but her entire future. Fay Weldon brings an aristocratic Edwardian household to fabulous, vibrant life in this gorgeously witty tale of manners and morals, commoners and countesses, from one of Britain's best loved authors.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.