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A Ripple from the Storm by Doris Lessing
Category: General Fiction | Series: Children of Violence Ser.
The third 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 personal life of a comrade would be arranged so that it interferes as little as possible with work," he ...Show more
Adoration (Film tie-In Edition) by Doris Lessing
Category: Fiction
The Grandmothers' is the story of two women who meet as schoolgirls and, in later life, live next-door to each other as neighbours. When their marriages collapse, each finds herself infatuated with the other's son. This is a searingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the length ...Show more
African Laughter by Lessing Doris
Category: Travel
Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposi ...Show more
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
BEN IN THE WORLD by DORIS LESSING
Category: Fiction
At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a ...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
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing, reissued here with a stunning new cover design. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical ...Show more
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the ...Show more
Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy by Sofia Tolstoy; Doris Lessing (foreword); Cathy Porter (trans.)
Category: Biography Memoir
When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing. In ...Show more
Doris Lessing Stories by Doris Lessing Trust
Category: Fiction
Included are seminal stories like "To Room Nineteen", in which a woman reacts against the oppression of her banal marriage with dreadful results; "One off the Short List", which traces the surprising conclusion to a seduction gone awry; and "The Habit of Loving" in which a lonely older man who takes a v ...Show more