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Like "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day", this 1937 novel is a fairy
tale for grown-ups, but one 'with an uneasy crash into social
reality'. Lady Rose Targenet, later created the Countess of
Lochlule, marries Sir Hector, owner of the estate next to
'Keepsfield', the palatial Scottish mansion where she lives. But
one day she meets someone on a park bench in Edinburgh...'It's a
little book about dreams and the hard world of money and position
and their relations to one another. It's also a love story and a
love letter - to Scotland' (Candia McWilliam). "Lady Rose and Mrs
Memmary" was a great favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who was later
the Queen Mother.
Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - the 'creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie Set, introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget.
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The Black Prince (Paperback)
Iris Murdoch; Introduction by Candia McWilliam
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CANDIA MCWILLIAM The Black Prince is both a
remarkable thriller and a story about being in love. Bradley
Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'.
Finding himself surrounded by predatory friends and relations - his
ex-wife, her delinquent brother, a younger, deplorably successful
writer, Arnold Baffin, Baffin's restless wife and engaging daughter
- Bradley attempts to escape. His failure to do so and its
aftermath lead to a violent climax and a most unexpected
conclusion.
Nicola Hicks’s sculpture and drawing practice has focused upon
heroic, humanized animals and mythic, beast-like humans. From the
moment she burst on the wider public stage, there has been no
doubting her remarkable talent. Picked out while still at the Royal
College of Art by the late Elisabeth Frink as a fellow spirit, she
quickly established an immediate presence among the artists of her
generation as a serious and substantial figure. She was remarkable
on every count, for she flew in the face of the critical
expectations of the day, not just in the nature of the actual
imagery she celebrated — figurative, romantic and expressive —
but also in the direct and gleeful joy she took in the physical
making of these things. This book is a visual celebration of her
work and features essays written by Will Self, Max Porter, Candia
McWilliam and David Mamet. Keep Dark is published by Elephant in
association with Flowers Gallery.
______________________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST
NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD ______________________
'A first novel of formidable accomplishment ... a debut of the
highest promise' - Sunday Times 'No new writer can make a more
stunning entrance than Candia McWilliam' - Daily Mail 'An incisive
debut, intelligent, scrupulously planned and full of echoes ...
fascinating' - Spectator ______________________ Lucas Salik is a
heart surgeon, renowned for performing bold experiments on other
people's hearts. Ostensibly chilly, he harbours a secret obsession
for his reckless and charismatic friend Hal. When Hal announces his
intention to find a wife, Lucas is forced to carry out his most
complex operation yet: to engineer the marriage, setting it on a
perilous path to failure. But just as things appear to be working
out, Lucas starts receiving ominous letters that threaten to
jeopardize his intentions, his career - and his life.
______________________ 'Poised, startling and innovative, A Case of
Knives marks the debut of an astonishingly accomplished new writer'
- Anita Brookner
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