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Alfred and Emily by Doris May Lessing
Category: Fiction
The first book after Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emo ...Show more
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris May Lessing
Category: Fiction
In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical inner-space life of an amnesiac. Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors a ...Show more
Essential Doris Lessing: Excerpts from the Golden Notebook by DORIS MAY LESSING
Category: Fiction
Mara and Dann : An Adventure by Doris May Lessing
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Thousands of years in the future, seven year-old Mara and her brother, Dann, are abducted in the middle of the night. Raised among hostile -Rock people, ' they eventually join the great migration north, away from the draught that is turning the land to desert. Trekking across a barren countryside, Mara ...Show more
The Cleft by Doris May Lessing
Category: Fiction
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last ende ...Show more
The Fifth Child by Doris May Lessing
Category: Fiction | Series: Paladin Books
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four chi ...Show more
The Four Gated City by Doris May Lessing
Category: Fiction | Series: Children of Violence
The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. 'The Four-Gated City' finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history o ...Show more
The Golden Notebook by Doris May Lessing
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The striking reissue of this classic Lessing novel. Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. Fear ...Show more
The Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing
Category: Fiction
"The Good Terrorist" follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change ...Show more
The Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth-century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become ...Show more