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  • The Constant Nymph
    Margaret Kennedy
    'The Constant Nymph' is a compelling exploration of the clash between bohemian idealism and the rigid constraints of traditional society. Centered on the eccentric and chaotic Sanger family-famously known as 'Sanger’s Circus'-the novel follows the lives of the children of a brilliant but dissolute composer living in the Austrian Alps. At the heart of the story is Teresa 'Tessa'...
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    27,12 €

  • Dewdrops.
    Margaret Kennedy
    'Dewdrops' is a compelling work of fiction by the acclaimed British novelist Margaret Kennedy, whose keen insight into the intricacies of human character and social mores earned her a place among the most celebrated writers of her generation. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century life, this narrative explores themes of domesticity, personal expectation, and the subtle ...
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    17,23 €

  • A French Grammar
    Margaret Kennedy
    'A French Grammar; Three Years’ Course. Part III' is a comprehensive pedagogical resource designed for the advanced study of the French language. This volume represents the final stage of a rigorous three-year curriculum, focusing on the intricate nuances of French syntax, advanced grammatical structures, and refined linguistic principles. Tailored for students who have already...
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    26,06 €

  • Red Sky at Morning
    Margaret Kennedy
    'Red Sky at Morning' is a compelling exploration of the inescapable weight of family legacy and the fragile nature of innocence. Set against the backdrop of post-World War I England, the novel follows the lives of William and Emily Crowne, the children of a notorious poet whose scandalous life and subsequent trial for murder have left them marked by society. Seeking refuge from...
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    26,03 €

  • Mr Luggie Tatters and the Terrible Trouble at Forevergreen Farm
    Margaret Kennedy
    Mr. Luggie Tatters is a small mongrel rescue dog who lives an idyllic life on Forevergreen Farm and Garden Centre with his many friends that include doves, goats, puffins, deer, sheep, and herons. But their happy days are about to be shattered when a bantam cockerel arrives on the scene with an evil mission.Rufus Octavius Theobald Thurstan Weiler is a tiny bully chicken who has...
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    13,99 €

  • The Constant Nymph
    Basil Dean / Margaret Kennedy
    Adapted by Margaret Kennedy, from her own novel, with Basil Dean.10 women, 10 men ...
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    19,06 €

  • Red Sky at Morning
    Margaret Kennedy
    ’Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with ’Continental’ bohemians’ Irish TimesWilliam and Emily Crowne seem to have it all - they live a life of privilege and glamour in London the children of a successful poet attractive happy largely blind to the world around them. But life takes an unexpected turn when their mother die...
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    22,33 €

  • Return I Dare Not
    Margaret Kennedy
    ’She is not only a romantic but an anarchist and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed’ Anita Brookner Hugo Potts is a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety. Adored by critics and pursued by women he’s the darling of the literary scene. But his public personae is exactly that - a personae - and he works exhaustedly day and night to portr...
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    22,38 €

  • A Long Time Ago
    Margaret Kennedy
    Elissa Koebel’s memoir is as scandalous and self-absorbed as its writer but for Hope it is more than just the latest salacious read. The chapter ’A Summer in Ireland’ tells of an episode that Hope remembers well when the younger beautiful and unconventional Koebel arrived to disrupt a family holiday. But back then Hope could not guess that her own fascination with Elissa w...
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    22,33 €

  • A Night in Cold Harbour
    Margaret Kennedy
    Romilly Brandon was heir to a fortune and the handsomest and liveliest young man in the county. But in his twenty-first year the pretty daughter of the local parson Jenny Newbolt broke his heart and he left to live a dissipated life in London. Returning years later Romily finds many surprises - his one-time sweetheart grown old and withered and in possession of a great se...
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    22,45 €

  • Troy Chimneys
    Margaret Kennedy
    A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton MP - apparently a black sheep of the family connected with a scandal long buried. But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities - Mile...
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    22,59 €

  • The Forgotten Smile
    Margaret Kennedy
    Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise. She ends up in Keritha - a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. There she encounters her childhood friends the Challoners returned to the island of their birth to claim their heritage. When another stray arrives: the unattractive foolish Selwyn Pott...
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    23,64 €

  • Together and Apart
    Margaret Kennedy
    Betsy Canning is dissatisfied with life. She has always taken pains to be healthy popular and well-treated but despite her wealth her comfortable homes and beautiful children happiness eludes her. The problem must lie she thinks in her marriage to Alec and a neat civilised divorce seems the perfect solution. But talk of divorce sparks interference from family and friend...
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    23,24 €

  • The Wild Swan
    Margaret Kennedy
    According to a sensational West End play the Victorian children’s writer Dorothea Harding was no dowdy maiden aunt but the passionate participant in a torrid tragic romance. It is the task of Roy Collins to turn the play into an equally popular film. Dorothea’s descendents have only weak objections to the misuse of their relation’s private past - they need money more than ...
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    22,38 €

  • Ladies of Lyndon
    Margaret Kennedy
    Agatha is aware of an intensity a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark. Beautiful young and carefully brought up Agatha knows she is securing a perfect and luxurious future in marrying handsome John Clewer and becoming Mistress of Ly...
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    23,51 €

  • The Constant Nymph
    Kennedy Margaret Kennedy
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    33,70 €