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Nina Bawden
Book List in Order: 47 titles
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Who Calls the Tune?
- 1953
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An extremely mesmerising woman, Venetia holds everyone she comes across enraptured. So when Venetia is found dead in suspicious circumstances the question is: exactly who would want to kill the beautiful Venetia?
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The Odd Flamingo
- 1954
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Beautiful Rose Blacker was a pathetic figure when she came to tell Celia Stone that she was pregnant by Humphrey, Celia's husband. Rose produced love letters from Humphrey which seemed to be conclusive proof of his guilt.
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Change Here for Babylon
- 1955
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When Tom Harrington embarks on an affair with the beautiful and affectionate Emily Hunter, he has no idea how seriously his life will be affected. At first, it is a straightforward deception, requiring only the usual expected tasks of lying to their ...
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Devil by the Sea
- 1957
- / Gothic
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"HE'S THE DEVIL..." Peregrine insisted gently. "I saw...." He caught his breath and began to cry. "I saw his cloven hoof." Hilary felt quite faint and sick. Peregrine was always truthful. She remembered the nanny who had said long ago, ...
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Just Like a Lady
- 1960
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Lucy's trouble is that the exercise of her ambition is trammelled by the letter, though not the spirit, of such contemporary morality as has been distilled to her. Quite intelligent and attractive enough to get on under her own steam, her desire to l...
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In Honour Bound
- 1961
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In Honour Bound is the exciting and very tautly written story of a hero who fell, not among thieves, but among his own friends. Johnny Prothero has everything. He was brought up in the closed, bright world of influence and wealth, and nourished on th...
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The Secret Passage
- 1963
- / General Fiction
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Lonely and forlorn after their mother's death and their sudden arrival at Aunt Mabel's seaside boarding-house, John, Mary and Ben Mallory are unimpressed with their new life in England. But there are wonderful surprises in store for them when they di...
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Tortoise by Candlelight
- 1963
- / Gothic
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'It is a small book, acute, discreet and tender; it is also written with warm care and considerable taste - all qualities too easily overlooked' KIRKUS REVIEWS'An exceptional picture of disorganised family life' OBSERVER'Bawden is noted too for the s...
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On the Run // Three on the Run
- 1964
- / General Fiction
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Ben, eleven years old and the youngest of the Mallory children, has left his aunt and siblings to come to London where his widower father wishes to introduce him to his young future step-mother. Unable to return home when his brother and sister becom...
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Under the Skin
- 1964
- / Gothic
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As Tom Grant saw it, when he and Louise turned up at London Airport to welcome Jay Nbola of Kenya, there was no reason for behaving as though anything extraordinary was happening: he had invited a friend to stay with them during his year at London Un...
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A Little Love, a Little Learning
- 1965
- / Gothic
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'Bawden has concentrated on the careful depiction of character, feelings and behaviour' GUARDIAN 'On every page there is a shock of recognition' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P. D. JAMESIt is th...
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The Witch's Daughter
- 1966
- / General Fiction
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On the Scottish island of Skua, friendship develops between the lonely and mysterious Perdita and a blind girl, Janey. Both possess a kind of second sight - Janey's is the ability to hear, feel and remember more than others, and Perdita's is the omin...
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A Handful of Thieves
- 1967
- / General Fiction
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Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother's savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and Clio launch on a series of sleuthing activities to trace the thief. Unfortunately their detective work leads them nowhere fast an...
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Woman of My Age
- 1967
- / Gothic
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Elizabeth and Richard are on holiday in Morocco, travelling from its fertile coast to the barren uplands beyond the Atlas mountains. During the expedition's adventures and mishaps, Elizabeth surveys her eighteen-year marriage and its accumulations of...
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The Grain of Truth
- 1969
- / Gothic
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'This is the off-side of lust in plush suburbia, described by a crypto-moralist with a mischievous sense of humour' SUNDAY TIMES'A born story-teller' INDEPENDENT 'The modest and moderating virtues of Nina Bawden's novels can easily be demonstrated by...
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The Runaway Summer
- Sep-1969
- / General Fiction
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Deeply unhappy at the recent divorce of her parents, Mary is sent away to live by the sea with her distant grandfather and the detestable Aunt Alice. Feeling abandoned, without even the company of her beloved pet cat Noakes, the summer looks set to b...
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The Birds on the Trees
- 1970
- / Gothic
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The expulsion from school of their eldest son shatters the middle-class security of Maggie, a writer, and Charlie, a journalist. Since childhood, Toby has been diffident and self-absorbed, but the threat of drug taking and his refusal (or inability) ...
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Anna Apparent
- 1972
- / Gothic
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'A born story-teller' INDEPENDENT 'Nina Bawden has always presented such ingratiating characters that you wonder, distantly, at her interest in Anna' KIRKUS REVIEWS'Throughout her career Bawden has concentrated on the careful depiction of character, ...
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Carrie's War
- 1973
- / General Fiction
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One of the most loved and enduring wartime novels,Carrie''s Waris a modern classic.
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MICHAEL MORPURGO AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN MARKS
''A touching, utterly convincing book'' Jacqueline Wilson
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George Beneath A Paper Moon
- 1974
- / General Fiction
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'A cast of nice, idiosyncratic characters . . . in the Turkish political climate' NEW YORK TIMES 'She held her readers' attention with her taut, inventive unfolding of twists and turns' GUARDIAN 'The comedy lies, as in the best and subtlest of comed...
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The Peppermint Pig
- 1975
- / General Fiction
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''Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up a giant space in your heart'' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE
''What a consummate storymaker Nina Bawden is'' MICHAEL MORPURGO
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Afternoon of a Good Woman
- 1976
- / Gothic
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'One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN 'So intelligent and clear-eyed that every page seems to peel another layer of pretence' ISABEL QUIGLEY, FINANCIAL TIMES'Nina Bawden's novels are self-perpetuatin...
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The Solitary Child
- 1976
- / Gothic
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A Mother's warning " I'm sure you think you're in love with him. You're excited by the idea of living in random's end. You're even more excited by the idea of living with a man who has been accused of murdering his wife. You think its romantic...
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Familiar Passions
- May-1979
- / Gothic
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'The reader is thoroughly entranced and entertained' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P. D. JAMES 'There's a speck of surprise on most every page' KIRKUS REVIEWS After an expensive dinner ...
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Walking Naked
- Dec-1981
- / Gothic
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'Dazzlingly effective . . . not easy to forget' FINANCIAL TIMES'Continually surprising, witty and often disquieting, Walking Naked is one of Nina Bawden's most impressive novels' COSMOPOLITAN 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writ...
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The Ice House
- Aug-1983
- / General Fiction
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'A darkly comedic tale of adultery that features a dangerously "good" and disciplined heroine' KIRKUS REVIEWS'Throughout her career Bawden has concentrated on the careful depiction of character, feelings and behaviour' GUARDIAN At fifteen, Daisy, con...
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The Finding
- 1985
- / General Fiction
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Alex is different from every other boy. He was Found eleven years ago in the arms of the giant Sphinx in the City of London. Ever since his Finding, Alex has lived happily with his adopted family, and instead of his birthday he celebrates his Finding...
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Circles of Deceit
- 1987
- / General Fiction
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Circles of Deceit is narrated by a painter who specializes as a copyist. Major figures on the canvas are Clio, his child-bride; Helen, his first wife; and his mother Maisie. They confound lies and the truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony ...
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The Outside Child
- 1989
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'I am an outside child. That is what Plato Jones calls me.' Jane Tucker is thirteen years old when she discovers she has a half-brother and sister, a revelation which promises to bring both excitement and succour to her ordinary life. But obsta...
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Family Money
- Dec-1991
- / General Fiction
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Fanny Pye's London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth a small fortune. When she intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalised, her children tactfully suggest that she move to the suburbs, coincidently releasing some useful '...
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The Real Plato Jones
- Nov-1993
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Thirteen-year-old Plato Jones comes to terms with his mixed heritage when he visits Greece and finds out about his Welsh grandfather, a World War II hero, and his Greek grandfather, who is rumored to have been a traitor....
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A Nice Change
- 1997
- / Literary
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Amy thinks that the Hotel Parthenon in Greece would be a nice change for her husband, Labour Minister Tom Jones, who is grumpily recovering from an operation for hemorrhoids. But once there, they run into Portia, Tom's redheaded ex-mistress, and then...
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Off the Road
- Nov-1998
- / General Fiction
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When Tom's grandfather goes off the road, Tom is sure Gandy has gone mad. Tom knows that beyond the wall lies the Outside, a wild place filled with barbarians and unimaginable dangers. He also knows that Oldies are weak-minded. So Tom summons all his...
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Ruffian on the Stair
- Sep-2001
- / General Fiction
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In six days, Silas Mudd will celebrate his 100th birthday. He is alarmingly healthy and tough as old boots -- which is more than can be said of his son Will. "Not sure he’ll make old bones,” Silas confides loudly to Coral, his daughter-in-law. ...
