Brigid Brophy

• 1978
• / General Fiction
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A fantasy about a mythical modern kingdom - replete with spies, assassins, communists, a dying king, a vegetarian queen, and a princess who numbers her lovers, chiefly female, in the thousands - Palace without Chairs is Brigid Brophy's storytelling m...

• Oct-1990
• / General Fiction
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Nancy meets Marcus at a party. He is untidy, nervous, shy: women have never paid him any attention. But here is virgin clay from which Nancy can mould her Adam. She marries him, and on their wedding night Marcus realises he is as much her protege in ...

• 1991
• / Literary
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• Jan-1995
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2002
• / General Fiction
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Set in an airport ("one of the rare places where twentieth-century design is happy with its own style"), In Transit is a textual labyrinth centering on a contemporary traveller. Waiting for a flight, Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley suffers from uncertaint...

• Sep-2013
• / Erotica
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• Oct-2013
• / General Fiction
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'In the title story of [The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl] the main character, God himself, expresses a taste for writing that's sophisticated, stylish, literary. The words apply very well to [Brigid] Brophy's own best work.' New...

• Jun-2024
• / Literary
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A delightful, queer quest for love, and a comic jaunt across Europe that’s “sharp, funny and clever, and fresh as new paint” (The Times).When 19-year-old Susan takes a job with Finkelheim, the shady bookseller down the street from her flat in L...