Isabel Colegate - Böcker

Celebrated novelist Isabel Colegate explores the lives and works of those who have followed the call of solitude, from Lao Tzu and the Desert Fathers to Wordsworth and Thoreau. "A Pelican in the Wilderness" casts through time and place t...

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'Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry' Sunday Telegraph It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian Engla...

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''Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry'' Sunday Telegraph It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian England is ab...

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The glittering, sharp and sinister work of one of our most incisive and wickedly funny satirists; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) 'What we feel for each other is really a passion for power,' said Judith. 'We wan...

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The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; ''Isabel Colegate has no rival'' ( The Times ) ''If you are curious as to why Britain is still...

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The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) 'If you are curious as to why Britai...

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''Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair'' Observer ''I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.'' 1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in polit...

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Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair Observer I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed. 1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, tal...

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'Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair' Observer'I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.' 1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, ...

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"A sonorous and muted masterpiece." --The Times (London) . His wild years behind him, Alfred Ashby, a celebrated photographer now in his late fifties, has returned to where he was raised, the family farm in rural England. The old house i...

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It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the hous...

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'As a novelist of English manners, Isabel Colegate has no rival.' - The Times 'Colegate's prose is flowing and unpretentious. She tells an excellent tale.' - Daily Telegraph '[Colegate's] strengths - neat psychological details, coolly literate nar...

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