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Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems by TONKS ROSEMARY
Category: Education
The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries - the subject of a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished. After publishing two extraordinary poetry collections - and six satirical novels - she turned her back on the litera ...Show more
Businessmen As Lovers by Rosemary Tonks
Category: Classic Fiction
Fun, witty and sun-soaked - literary cartwheels and seaside capers from the astoundingly brilliant mid-century writer who destroyed her own books. Great friends, Mimi and Caroline, are off on holiday to a beautiful Italian island. There they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of characters inclu ...Show more
The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks
Category: Classic Fiction
A sparklingly ironic comedy of manners set in 60s London. A rediscovered classic by 'the Poet Who Disappeared' WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY STEWART LEE 'Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it's fantastic. It makes you question the canon. What else have they missed? The idiots' Stewart ...Show more
The Halt During the Chase by Rosemary Tonks
Category: Classic Fiction
Brilliantly funny and brutal, this is the story of one woman's escape from the clutches of polite society, by the incredible mid-century writer who destroyed her own books. Sophie's mother knows exactly how to needle her. Sophie's lover Philip knows how to stab her in the heart. She may be clever, char ...Show more
The Way Out of Berkeley Square by Rosemary Tonks
Category: Classic Fiction
Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of woman's desperate quest for freedom. 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck' Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actual ...Show more
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