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A Dog's Life by Paul Bailey
27.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
In the spring of 1985, the novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome by her charms, though after a ...Show more
An Immaculate Mistake : Scenes from Childhood and beyond (revised ed, 2004) by Paul Bailey
27.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This first volum of Paul bailey's memoirs principally converns his childhood in south London during the '40s and '50s. This is a revised edition. "Unsentimental, touching...a funny, sad way to come to terms with the experience of childhood. If only more memoirs could be like An Immaculate Mistake" - Su ...Show more
At the Jerusalem by Paul Bailey
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A very funny book, but never jeering, full of pity, but unsentimentally harsh with the tragedy of old age which institutional kindness cannot cushion' Financial Times. Following the death from leukaemia of her daughter, Celia, Mrs Gadny goes to live with her sullen stepson Henry. But she finds little ...Show more
Chapman's Odyssey by Paul Bailey
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
So here he was at last, where he had long feared to be. Harry Chapman is not well, and he doesn't like hospitals. Superficially all is as it normally is in such places, with nurses to chide him and a priest to console. But there are more than usual quotient of voices - is it because of Dr Pereira's wond ...Show more
Uncle Rudolf by Paul Bailey
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The haunting new novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker prize. At the age of 70, Andrew Peters suddenly finds himself speaking a language he has not used since childhood, when he came to live with his doting Uncle Rudolf. Rudolf transformed Andrew's world. Lo ...Show more
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