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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A powerful and moving novel from 1921, about the lives and choices of modern women, by Canadian author Marjorie Grant. Latchkey ladies live alone or in shared rooms in London at the end of the First World War. They are determined to use their new freedoms and tread a fine line between independence and disaster. Maquita Gilroy is a Government clerk with a lively sense of self-preservation. Anne Carey is drifting between jobs, bored of her fiance, and longing for something to give her life meaning. Then she meets Philip Dampier, a married man whose plays she admires. Petunia Garry, a beautiful teenage chorus girl with no background and dubious morals, is swept up by an idealistic country squire, determined to mould her into what he wants his wife to be. Gertrude Denby, an Admirals daughter and an endlessly patient companion to an irritating employer, is so very tired of living out her life in hired rooms. Fear woke her in the defenceless hour of dawn. She sat up in bed and faced it at last, shivering so that her teeth chattered, but valiant. She was certain that she was going to have a child. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century. Melissa Edmundson has curated this selection of the best of Mordaunt's supernatural short fiction, which blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, possession, conjuration from the dead and witchcraft. Each story is an original and compelling contribution to the genre, making this selection a marvellous new showcase for women's writing in classic supernatural fiction. Stories include: The Villa, in which a Croatian mansion does things to its unlucky owners. The Country-side, in which a very ordinary infidelity demands the ultimate sacrifice. Hodge (previously published inWomens Weird) in which a teenage brother and sister resurrect a prehistoric man and bring him into their home. Four wallpapers, in which stripping off the wall coverings of a French chateau re-enacts a family tragedy. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

softcover. Zustand: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 247 pp., Introduction by Sarah Lonsdale.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It's a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancee. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of Everyman's (a very thin disguise for Selfridges), and rises rapidly through the ranks to work in the library, where she has to enforce modernising systems on her entrenched and frosty colleagues. Business as Usual is charming: light, intelligent, heart-warming, funny, and entertaining. Its deeply interesting as a record of the history of shopping in the 1930s, and also fascinating for its unflinching descriptions of social conditions, poverty and illegitimacy. `Jane Oliver was the pen-name of Helen Evans (1903-1970). Formerly Clemence Danes secretary, she developed a writing career, and wrote many successful novels with Ann Stafford (the pen-name of Ann Pedlar, also known as Joan Blair). Business as Usual was their first joint novel. Jane became a pilot and married the author John Llewellyn Rhys, who was killed in the war. She founded the Llewellyn Rhys Prize in his memory. She later lived in Hampshire near Ann Pedlar, and cared for her in illness until her death. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Good. : Mara Tagarelli dirige una fundación multimillonaria para la lucha contra el SIDA y es una experta en artes marciales. Sin embargo, su vida da un vuelco inesperado. Incapaz de confiar en su familia y con su cuerpo fallándole, sus amigos y colegas la evitan, tratándola como a una víctima. Mara decide cambiar esta narrativa, construyendo su propia comunidad, aprendiendo nuevas fortalezas y luchando. Pero, ¿qué ocurre cuando descubre que la historia que le contaron, la historia que se contó a sí misma, es falsa? ¿Cómo puede luchar si no confía en su cuerpo? ¿En quién puede confiar si aquellos que la rodean no velan por sus intereses y los sistemas de ayuda causan más daño que beneficio? Mara toma una decisión que desata monstruos dirigidos al corazón de su nueva comunidad. Esta es una ficción desde la primera línea, incandescente y urgente, una narrativa que expone la crueldad del trato de Estados Unidos hacia los discapacitados y enfermos crónicos. Pero 'So Lucky' también irradia esperanza y un amor feroz por uno mismo, por la vida que se hace posible cuando dejamos de creer en mentiras. EAN: 9781912766000 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: So Lucky Autor: Nicola Griffith Idioma: en Formato: tapa blanda Año de publicación: 2018.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Never before have so many relics from the past caused such delicious and intriguing shivers down the spine. Archaeological historian Amara Thornton of the University of London, and Classical archaeologist Katy Soar from the University of Winchester have curated a selection of twelve outstanding short stories encompassing horror, ghosts, hauntings, and possession, all from archaeological excavation. From a Neolithic rite to Egyptian religion to Roman remains to medieval masonry to some uncanny ceramic tiles in a perfectly ordinary American sun lounge, the relics in these stories are, frankly, horrible. Cover endorsement from well-known UK archaeologist Mike Pitts. Authors include: - M R James (haunted binoculars), Algernon Blackwood (bestial rites in Wales), Arthur Conan Doyle (Roman ghosts), John Buchan (haunted medieval house), RoseMacaulay (the death caves of the Emperor Tiberius), Arthur Machen (prehistoric survival), Eleanor Scott (Viking possession), Margery Lawrence (Egyptian death rites), Alan Wace(Macedonian treasure), and Dorothy Quick (the tiles are possessed). 195 pages.…

New edition. 8vo. 213pp. + adverts. B/w. illustrations. Paperback in original pictorial maroon wrapps. with white lettering to spine, very good. ISBN 9781912766529 US$9.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. xxv + 218pp, softcover, very good condition with no markings or annotations except some minor ink marking to page edges (when book closed), Handheld Press, Bath, 2023. * well known authors of the uncanny such as Eleanor Scott, Edith Wharton, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Machen etc. Are showcased with long-forgotten masters and mistresses of the supernatural short story.…

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Topsy is a girlabout town in late 1920s London, a society deb, a dashing flapper. She writes breathless, exuberantletters to her best friend Trixabout her life, her parties, her intrigues, and the men in her life. Topsy isunexpectedly drawn into politics, and to her amazement, she is elected as amember of Parliament.Topsy'sextensive social life, her adventures in and out of the House of Commons (andher audacious attempts to legislate for the Enjoyment of the People), and herwartime activity as the mother of twins, were recorded faithfully by the greatcomic writer A P Herbert. Handheld Press is publishing a new omnibus edition of Topsy's adventures, consisting ofThe Trials of Topsy (1928),TopsyMP (1929)and TopsyTurvy (1947), for the delight and admiration of a newgeneration. For lovers of Nancy Mitford and The Diary of a Provincial Lady Topsy will be a fresh delight. Copyright © Handheld Press.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. Paperback. There's No Story There. Wartime Writing 1944-1945. This book is a novel about the lives of conscripted workers at Statevale, an enormous rural munitions factory in the norther of England during the Second World War. The workers make shells and bombs, and no chances can be taken with so much high explosive around. This novel interweaves the stories of everyday working in a wartime community, each life inadvertently affecting the others. This remarkable novel, published here with an Introduction by Lucy Scholes, and three of Holden's short stories of wartime life, is a companion to her Blitz Writing (2019). 231 pp.…

Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 268 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.