Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
A brilliant novel narrated by an intelligent and humorous teenager who has just turned 18. His mother, an artist, described as having a "masculine style" taught part time in the local art college...more details Format:Hardback Pages:200
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Patricia Duncker
ISBN:9780747585152
An intricate and self-reflective novel about that most delicate of relationships--meaning the one between writers and readers. The narrator, an anonymous graduate student...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Patricia Duncker
ISBN:9780330371698
At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. Across the Empire...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Patricia Duncker
ISBN:9780747584308
Elizabeth Webster is a sixty-nine year old retired school teacher. She is a tough, old bird: spiky, cynical and adamantly independent; a woman...more details Format:Paperback / softback
Elizabeth Webster is a sixty-nine year old retired school teacher. She is a tough, old bird: spiky, cynical and adamantly independent; a woman who has never married...more details Format:Hardback
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Patricia Duncker
ISBN:9780747585909
Elizabeth Webster is a sixty-nine year old retired school teacher. She is a tough, old bird: spiky, cynical and adamantly independent; a woman who has never married...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Patricia Duncker
ISBN:9780330371681
A collection of stories united by the themes of pleasure, passion, jealousy and revenge. Patricia Dunker is the author of "Hallucinating Foucault"....more details Format:Paperback
Both revealing and disturbing, these eponymous tales explore themes of perversity and power, lust and mortality, offering the reader a disquieting feast of debauchery and decadence....more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Patricia Duncker
ISBN:9780330490115
Following the success of her much-acclaimed fourth novel, The Deadly Space Between, Patricia Duncker's new book promises - and delivers - more in the same sinister vein. A collection of interwoven stories...more details Format:Hardback Pages:200
A solitary boy in a family of independent, unconventional women, Toby Hawk lives in a small, closed world that consists of school and surfing the Internet. His mother...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Patricia Duncker
ISBN:9780060090418
So begins "The Doctor, " a provocative, illuminating novel based on a true story about a brilliant female physician who is compelled to live as a man under the name James Miranda Barry. Patricia Duncker traces Barry's incredible life over the course of five decades and across three continents...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Patricia Duncker
ISBN:9780863584329
A study in critical readership, this wide-ranging collection of essays challenges accepted theories on everything from classics such as Charlotte Bronte's Villette to more contemporary works like Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man. Explored are ideas of sexual subversion and queer politics. Literature's sacred cows are reevaluated...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
A study in critical readership, this wide-ranging collection of essays challenges accepted theories on everything from classics such as Charlotte Bronte's Villette to more contemporary works like Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man. Explored are ideas of sexual subversion and queer politics. Literature's sacred cows are reevaluated...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
The contributors to this original collection have cancer and none tells a conventional cancer story. In their determination to uncover the complexities and subtleties of cancer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Duncker Patricia
ISBN:9781408812174
Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Duncker Patricia
ISBN:9781408812167
At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. Across the Empire...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:391
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Duncker Patricia
ISBN:9781852425722
This collection of stories is united by the themes of pleasure, passion, jealousy and revenge. Duncker creates worlds where the apparently innocent are not harmless and no-one ever turns out to be exactly what they seem....more details Format:Paperback
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Duncker Patricia
ISBN:9781408804179
From the vineyards of Southern France to the gabled houses of Lubeck, through cathedrals, opera houses, museums and the cobbled streets of an Alpine village...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Duncker Patricia
ISBN:9781408807040
Hurtling breathlessly through the vineyards of Southern France to the gabled houses of Lubeck, through cathedrals, opera houses, museums and the cobbled streets of an Alpine village...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Duncker Patricia
ISBN:9781408809563
On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272