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Rosamunde macht sich nicht viel aus der Liebe. Die wohl einzige Jungfrau im London der Swinging Sixties hätte zwar mehr als genug Gelegenheiten für heiße Affären, sitzt aber lieber über den Büchern. Und ausgerechnet sie wird nach einem mäßigen One-Night-Stand schwanger. Im ersten Schreck versucht sie die Angelegenheit mit Gin und einem heißen Bad zu beenden. Doch alles geht schief, und der Abend endet in einem großen Besäufnis. Rosamunde schafft es nicht, sich gegen das Kind zu entscheiden. Na gut, dann zieht sie es eben allein auf. Auch wenn das Leben als ledige Mutter wohl nicht einfach werden wird. Nicht in ihren kühnsten Träumen hätte sie für möglich gehalten, sich so rückhaltlos in ihre kleine Tochter zu verlieben. Als diese lebensbedrohlich erkrankt, lernt die eher hasenfüßige Rosamunde sich von einer komplett anderen Seite kennen.

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair. Now, after thirty years apart and at the close of the 20th century, their lives are converging once again as they hurtle towards each other by plane and train - their motivations, regrets and decisions laid bare.With the gloriously astute eye that Margaret Drabble is celebrated for, The Sea Lady is an account of first and last love; of the lapping of time at our ankles, gradually eroding and shaping our lives.

A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw and the part it plays in the patchwork of its distinguished author's life. A mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling

'The funniest and best-written novel I have seen for a very long time' Auberon WaughHoward Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard's desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard's wife Barbara, promiscuous '70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood. The History Man is Malcolm Bradbury's masterpiece and the definitive campus novel of the 1970s. It brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles and abuse at the highest level as the Machiavellian Howard effortlessly seduces his way around campus.

Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.

One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Margaret Drabble is an unmatched observer of postwar English lives, portraying social change, sexual liberation, landscape, class and the messy complications of human relationships with intricacy and honesty. In these two stories of lives colliding, a mother buying a birthday gift has her dreams destroyed, and a honeymoon leads to an unexpected epiphany.

An original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression.The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries about jigsaw puzzles — did you know that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales? — Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to London together, the books they read, the jigsaws they completed. She offers penetrating sketches of her parents, her siblings, and her children; she shares her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, on art and writing, on aging and memory. And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. This is a memoir like no other.

The colorful, controversial life story of Angus Wilson--one of the most brilliant writers to emerge after World War II--is captured by acclaimed novelist Margaret Drabble. A master chronicler of the foibles of English life, Wilson emerges as an artist of enormous courage, one of the very few who, even in the 1940s, lived as an open homosexual.

Poet Jane Gray, whose husband has left her shortly before the birth of their second child, falls passionately in love with James, the husband of Lucy - Jane's cousin and her friend. Their adulterous affair remains secret until a tragic accident exposes it to the world and they have to face the consequences! The Waterfall is a powerful novel about sexual awakening and obsession - and the violent conflicts of maternal and sexual love.