Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch
8 best books like Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (John Bayley): The Sea, The Sea, Last Seen Wearing, The Millstone, The Nice and the Good, In Therapy: How Conversations With Psychotherapists Really Work, The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, Fabulous Small Jews, The Norton Book of Personal Essays
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung...
| Author | Colin Dexter |
| ISBN | 0804114919 |
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw...
| Author | Margaret Drabble |
| ISBN | 0156006197 |
Margaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, is about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother. Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance...
| Author | Iris Murdoch |
| ISBN | 0140030344 |
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, the self-gratifying and the impersonal; - The Nice And The Good - as they are embodied in a fascinating...
In Therapy: How Conversations With Psychotherapists Really Work
| Author | Susie Orbach |
| ISBN | 1781257531 |
In the UK alone, 1.5 million people are in therapy. They go to address past traumas, to break patterns of behaviour, to confront eating disorders or addiction, to talk about relationships, or simply because they need to find out more about what makes them tick.
Susie Orbach, the bestselling...
The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
| Author | Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1406531537 |
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was an American author, poet, editor and anthologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College and Harvard University. He was noted for compiling and editing an annual collection of The Best Short Stories by American authors...
| Author | Joseph Epstein |
| ISBN | 0618446583 |
In Fabulous Small Jews, the best-selling author Joseph Epstein has produced eighteen charming, magical, and finely detailed stories. They are populated by lawyers, professors, scrap-iron dealers, dry cleaners, all men of a certain age who feel themselves adrift in the radically changed values...
The Norton Book of Personal Essays
| Author | Joseph Epstein |
| ISBN | 0393036545 |
In this anthology of twentieth-century essays, some of our most-admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, andabove allvarious opinions. Topics range from Tangier to a lake in Maine, from racial conflict to sky diving, from the expectations...
