A Far Cry From Kensington by Spark, Muriel staff pick

A Far Cry From Kensington by Spark, Muriel staff pickAuthor: Spark, Muriel Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 23 January 2025 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the VMC' series. Paperback 208 pages 127 x 198 x 16 172g I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel. When publishing assistant and war widow Nancy Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he 'urinates frightful prose', the

Jostled by his nefarious cousins and goaded by his dead mother's dog

Published on 8 November 2022 by Fantagraphics in the United States

belonging and harm

Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites Margaret Jull Costa's celebrated translation with the most complete version of the text ever produced

As Jabari rages against the iniquity

redemptive

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Published on 4 July 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom

he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations

This first instalment tells of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country

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