Fay Weldon - Böcker

»En bok som fullkomligt vibrerar av energi. Ett litet, galet mästerverk.« Washington Post Ruth Patchett har aldrig betraktat sig själv som djävulsk, snarare motsatsen. Hon är en lång, inte särskilt attraktiv kvinna, som lever ett stillsamt liv med...

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»En bok som fullkomligt vibrerar av energi. Ett litet, galet mästerverk.« Washington Post Ruth Patchett har aldrig betraktat sig själv som djävulsk, snarare motsatsen. Hon är en lång, inte särskilt attraktiv kvinna, som lever ett stillsamt liv med...

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You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay W...

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The ';extraordinary' #1 New York Timesbestselling classic about women and marriage, ';at once wildly funny and very wise' (Los Angeles Times). After five years, Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads in her marriage: Should she and her husband stay...

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Sappho är en ung begåvad manusförfattare som gift sig med den nitton år äldre änklingen Gavin. Hon har även blivit styvmor till hans två barn. Något som får ödesdigra konsekvenser. För att undvika en gruvlig konflikt med sin styvdotter lämnar Sapp...

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At 6.30pm one Thursday, Natalie Harris's world fell apart when she discovered her husband, Harry Harris, had eloped with Miss Eddon Gurney 1978. Natalie is utterly abandoned in the heart of the country, but then she meets Sonia and her life is cha...

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'I read my daughter's diaries the other day. Let me share with you. You may think you know pretty much what's going on in your own family. Believe me, you do not'. Sappho was so happy when she married Gavin. She was in love and it seemed that at l...

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Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives. The Ladies lounge ar...

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This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example: Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it ." . . a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no ...

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Bernard Bellamy has done a deal. He has sold out to the devil, in all of its forms. In return, he is promised that all his wishes will be granted, all his desires fulfilled. One of them, young Carmen Wedmore, is proving to be quite a challenge.

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Clifford Wexford is a darling and a devil. An entrepreneur, his unique combination of charm and daring manipulates an already fraudulent art world. But manipulation of the egos and the canvasses of those surrounding him isn't his only forte. Cliff...

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Into the lives of four female friends erupts Leslie Beck, an old flame not quite extinguished, who catapults them into their murky past. Leslie is still a man with a life force - a force which he is more than willing to share with old and new frie...

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Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair. But on this, the first day of the rest of their blissful lives, Spicer fails to kiss Annette goodbye, as he leaves for the office. The years of marriage shift and change: the rock of Annette's marriage may b...

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Sir Edwin Rice has decided to divorce Lady Angelica. She has behaved intolerably and is accused of abuse, violence, bestiality and lesbianism. But there is more to Angelica than her husband realizes - she is a wife, a tart, a star, a secretary and...

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A collection of stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deprecation rules, where a bully can believe he is a victim, a blackmailer see herself as a healer and an artist's slave be sure she is free.

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A savagely satirical tale of marital revenge. Madeleine wants revenge; Madeleine wants to be remembered: Madeleine wants love. Who doesn't? Madeleine is ex-wife and chief persecutor of Jarvis, the architect. Why not? She hates him. Hilary is their...

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The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life.From the 1930s to the 2000s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, young and poor in London, unmarried mother, wife, lover, playwrigh...

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With her inimitable wit and insight, Fay Weldon offers her wisdom on the subject of female happiness and how to achieve it.What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.In this book, Fay Weldon offers wisdo...

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A novel of urban deceit and rural passion, of doctors, witches, birth and death.'Many people dream of country cottages. Liffey dreamed for many years, and saw her dream come true one hot Sunday afternoon, in Somerset, in September... A trap closed...

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A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittery world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare.Take one wealthy businessman fresh on his second marriage to an avid, successful young w...

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'Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy' SpectatorHere are nineteen glittery new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone.St...

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A brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left off.Fay Weldon, one of our cleverest and best-loved...

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Weldon on top form; Weldon tackling love, sex, ageing, death; Weldon at her wittiest best; Weldon unparalleled.Sophia is a thirty-four-year-old film editor living in Soho. Her only living relation (she thinks), her grandmother Felicity, is an eigh...

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A wonderful collection on topical themes from the controversial 'product-placement' author of The Bulgari Connection.A superb new collection of stories: shrewd, sharp, insightful, with a cheerfully dark view of the world.The wronged wife remains a...

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A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer.'Watching Me, Watching You' was Fay Weldon's first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitte...

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A selection of lectures and essays contributed to newspapers, magazines and books over recent years, revised for this volume and all highly relevant to today.In these essays find a portrait of the times, to help us map our way through the new Gard...

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Fay Weldon's first novel, a sharp and witty parable of the way people see themselves.For several weeks, Esther Sussman had lived in a sordid flat in Earls Court. During the day she read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched televisio...

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This is the story of women when they were wimmin: of that blossoming in seventies England of hope, freedom, equality and sisterhood; and of what happened next...Big Women is the tale of Medusa, a feminist publishing house founded one balmy evening...

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An astonishing audiobook that probes into the strange world of genetic engineering.Joanna May thought herself unique, indivisible - until one day, to her hideous shock, she discovered herself to be five: though childless she was a mother; though a...

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