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A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure' - Jilly Cooper, author of The Rutshire Chronicles series'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman, author of The Thrusday Murder ClubBarbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of or ...Show more
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics 547 | Reading Level: very good
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Ang ...Show more
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The stunning autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women."I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym." RICHARD OSMAN"Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure." JILLY COOPER"Could ...Show more
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers as a reader to a blind, esteemed ...Show more
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPERIn a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers ...Show more
An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murd ...Show more
Civil to Strangers by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, CIVIL TO STRANGERS, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written comment on her writing career. In CIVIL TO STRANGERS the lives of a young cou ...Show more
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMANMildred 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 great moments of life - birth, marriage, death, the succe ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$27.98 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, though, she often gets herself embroi ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC | Reading Level: good
Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in o ...Show more
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLERCatherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when ...Show more