Маргарет Дрэббл — новинки

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one-night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood.

From the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many ways in which we confront aging and living in a time of geopolitical rupture.

Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives “restlessly round England,” which is “her last love . . . She wants to see it all before she dies.” Amid the professional conferences that dominate her schedule, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home cooked dinners to her ailing ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the shocking death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a flood plain in the West Country. Fran cannot help but think of her mortality, but she is “not ready to settle yet, with a cat upon her knee.” She still prizes her “frisson of autonomy,” her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world.

"The Dark Flood Rises" moves between Fran’s interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands. In both places, disaster looms. In Britain, the flood tides are rising, and in the Canaries, there is always the potential for a seismic event. As well, migrants are fleeing an increasingly war-torn Middle East.

Though "The Dark Flood Rises" delivers the pleasures of a traditional novel, it is clearly situated in the precarious present. Margaret Drabble’s latest enthralls, entertains, and asks existential questions in equal measure. Alas, there is undeniable truth in Fran’s insight: “Old age, it’s a fucking disaster!”

Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is a happy child, always willing to smile at the world around her. But she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early twenties, living alone in North London and hoping to embark on an adventurous career, her arrival will prove life-transforming. Over the course of decades, in ways large and small, Anna will affect the lives and loves of those around her. While Anna herself will remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a period of dramatic change, her journey illuminating our shifting attitudes towards motherhood, responsibility and the way we care for one another. Both personal and political, The Pure Gold Baby is a remarkable portrait of a family, a friendship, and a neighbourhood. It is a novel of great beauty, wisdom and stealthy power by one of our country's foremost and acclaimed writers.

Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is a happy child, always willing to smile at the world around her. But she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early twenties, living alone in North London and hoping to embark on an adventurous career, her arrival will prove life-transforming.

Over the course of decades, in ways large and small, Anna will affect the lives and loves of those around her. While Anna herself will remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a period of dramatic change, her journey illuminating our shifting attitudes towards motherhood, responsibility and the way we care for one another.

Novelist, critic and biographer, Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. This collection shows her to be a leading practitioner of the art of the short story, presenting her complete short fiction for the first time in a single volume, spanning for four decades, from 1964 to 2000.


Several of the stories, like The Dower House at Kellynch, are set in Somerset and Dorset and reflect their author?s intimate knowledge of the land and flora there, but their settings also range as far as Elba and Turkmenistan. Taken as a whole, the stories reflect the social changes of the past forty years, by showing the English at home and abroad.In ?The Gifts of War?, peace-protesting students clash with a mother buying a toy for her son, with tragic consequences. An Englishman on honeymoon has a brief but significant epiphany, finding a shared humanity with a Moroccan crowd in ?Hassan?s Tower?. Their protagonists are men and women, husbands and lovers, television presenters and housewives, all subtly and precisely captured as products of their time and place. In his introduction, Spanish scholar Jose Francisco Fernandez celebrates the ?pure and simple pleasure to be found in reading these survivalist, questioning, belligerently intense short stories?.

On dit que ce n'est pas la destination qui compte, mais le voyage... Ailsa est dans l'avion, Humphrey dans le train. Ils doivent se retrouver au bout du chemin, à Finsterness, le petit village au bord de la mer du Nord où ils se sont connus, enfants, dans l'immédiat après-guerre. Ils ne se sont pas revus depuis des décennies. La dernière fois que leurs routes se sont croisées, au début des années soixante, Ailsa, la féministe avide de publicité, la fantasque, l'outrancière, et Humphrey, le tran-quille doctorant en biologie marine, se sont follement aimés... et déchirés. Une rupture qui a imprimé leurs vies futures. On dit qu'on n'oublie jamais son premier amour... Le hasard ¿ si c'est bien lui ¿ veut que les deux sexagénaires soient aujourd'hui invités par la même université pour se voir remettre un doctorat honoris causa. Alors qu'ils se rapprochent de ce Nord de légende où tout a commencé, les souvenirs et les interrogations affleurent. Qu'est-ce qui les attend à la fin du voyage ?Naviguant entre passé et présent, entre fantaisie et émotion, la piquante Margaret Drabble matérialise le royaume d'enfance, les sables mouvants de l'existence et la fuite du temps.

Всеми силами Клара Моэм, героиня романа "Мой золотой Иерусалим", пытается вырваться из удушающей атмосферы родного городка, серой и скучной. Бегство не спасает. Только встреча с семьей Денэмов, где все талантливы и очаровательны, где все любят друг друга и умеют наслаждаться жизнью, открывает для Клары новый, искрящийся мир вокруг. Но как стать частью этого мира, как почувствовать себя живой, как отыскать свой собственный "золотой Иерусалим"?

One of the great reference books of the century is now revised and updated. It contains 60 new entries on contemporary writers, from Martin Amis and Bruce Chatwin, to Salman Rushdie and Gore Vidal. Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date, this book offers the most complete reference guide to a marvelous literary heritage.

Twenty five years ago Liz, Alix and Esther were leading lights at Cambridge. Now they meet as old friends at a glittering New Year's Eve party to welcome in the 1980s. It is the dawn of the Thatcher era, and Britain is on the brink of great social and political upheaval. How will these three ambitious and confident middle-aged women survive the personal and professional challenges, and the changing values of the next decade? The Radiant Way brilliantly explores their loves, losses, hopes and fears, and the strength of their friendship.

Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news.
Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. Despite all the efforts and sneers of her friends, she refuses to move from her slum house in a decaying neighborhood to which she has become attached. Gradually, Simon becomes aware that Rose is a woman of remarkable integrity and courage. He is drawn into her affairs when her husband takes legal action to reopen the question of custody of the children-a scheme for getting his wife back. And, while the precise nature of their ties eludes him, Simon comes to realize that Rose and her Greek ex-husband are forever and inextricably bound to each other.