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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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN '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, well looked after, suitably husbanded, go ...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
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKINFormidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-n ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
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
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. With delightful humour, Pym takes us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements; and, perhaps most keenly felt, their worries about having ...Show more
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