New Statesman - <![CDATA[Margaret Drabble]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/margaret_drabble en <![CDATA[Diary: Margaret Drabble ]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/09/2012-sea-porlock-athletics http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/09/2012-sea-porlock-athletics Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:19:24 GMT Margaret Drabble I may become addicted to athletics by 2012

]]> <![CDATA[Mummy's boy]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200609180054 http://www.newstatesman.com/200609180054 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble In the Blood: a memoir of my childhood Andrew Motion Faber & Faber, 326pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571228038

]]> <![CDATA[The age of publicity]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200606120053 http://www.newstatesman.com/200606120053 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble The Year of Henry James David Lodge Harvill Secker, 332pp, £18.99 ISBN 1846550033

]]> <![CDATA[The common reader]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200604170038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200604170038 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel: what to read and how to write Jane Smiley Faber & Faber, 608pp, £16.99 ISBN 1400040590

]]> <![CDATA[True stories. Have you ever wondered who the Franks were, or failed to distinguish the Habsburgs from the Hohenzollerns? A children's book written 70 years ago answers these and many other questions. Margaret Drabble takes a charming tour through the past]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200509260039 http://www.newstatesman.com/200509260039 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble A Little History of the World E H Gombrich; translated by Caroline Mustill Yale University Press, 304pp, £14.99 ISBN 0300108834

]]> <![CDATA[Diary - Margaret Drabble]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200508080002 http://www.newstatesman.com/200508080002 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble Somebody - I think it was a naughty boy - threw an egg at me. "Good shot!" I cried, in cowardly appeasement, and then booked my ticket out of town

]]> <![CDATA[The backward look]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200505160035 http://www.newstatesman.com/200505160035 Mon, 16 May 2005 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble The Power of Delight: a lifetime in literature - essays, 1962-2002 John Bayley; selected by Leo Carey Duckworth, 677pp, £25 ISBN 0715633120

]]> <![CDATA[A floating world]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200403010034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200403010034 Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble Prunella Clough relished the strange and ephemeral, preferring wastelands and industrial imagery to conventionally pretty landscapes. Margaret Drabble looks back at one of art's more elusive figures

]]> <![CDATA[Upstairs, downstairs]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200308250029 http://www.newstatesman.com/200308250029 Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble The Victorian House Judith Flanders HarperCollins, 476pp, £20 ISBN 0007131887

]]> <![CDATA[Melancholy undercurrents]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200307140047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200307140047 Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:00:00 GMT Margaret Drabble Paradise of Cities: Venice and its 19th-century visitors John Julius Norwich Viking, 283pp, £20 ISBN 067089401X

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