Library home. Books by Margaret Drabble

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ARNOLD BENNETT

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 589 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 15
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 21.75
\pause{1500}Reader: Hall, Shirley
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Art, Music & Literature
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Biography of a great personality

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GATES OF IVORY, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 3498 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 11
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 16.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Bliss, Barbara
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Liz receives a mysterious parcel from Cambodia & sets off to find a missing friend. Sequel to 'A Natural Curiosity' (3l33);

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ICE AGE, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 970 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
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\pause{1500}Reader: Shields, Peggy
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Life in England after the swinging 60s. Bad language and sex

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NATURAL CURIOSITY, A

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 3133 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 15.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Scott, Marion
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Continuing the story of three Cambridge friends & how they come to terms with l980s Britain. Sequel to: 'The Radiant Way' (2342)

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NEEDLE'S EYE, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 2140 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 22
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\pause{1500}Reader: Clegg, Nancy
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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A barrister's friend is drawn into Rose's estrangement from her Greek husband

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PEPPERED MOTH, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5896 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 13
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 18.25
\pause{1500}Reader: Hodgson, Margaret
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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In 1912 gifted Bessie Bawtry uses her place at Cambridge as a way to escape Breaseborough, a Yorkshire mining town. Her granddaughter visits the town nearly a century later and questions whether she has travelled further in life than her Yorkshire kin!

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RADIANT WAY, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 2342 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 23
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\pause{1500}Reader: Scott, Marion
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Friendship of three women wittily portrayed

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RED QUEEN, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6799 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
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\pause{1500}Reader: Markham, Jane
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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In the eighteenth century a young girl was plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. Two hundred years later the Red Queen's ghost decides that she wants her story kept alive and selects Dr. Babs Halliwell as the perfect envoy.

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SEVEN SISTERS, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6304 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 10.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Johnson, Jill
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Claudia Wilton arrives in London, divorced and with little money, but filled with a sense of excitement and a belief that she is a lucky person. She is right, a windfall brings her unexpected riches and her horizons suddenly broaden!

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SUMMER BIRD-CAGE, A

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 2936 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
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\pause{1500}Reader: Dodd, Valerie
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Relationship between two sisters is put to the test

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