Margaret Drabble
Articles by Margaret Drabble
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Poetry
Mummy's boy
- 18 September 2006
In the Blood: a memoir of my childhood
Andrew Motion Faber & Faber, 326pp, £16.99
ISBN 0571228038
Media
The age of publicity
- 12 June 2006
The Year of Henry James
David Lodge Harvill Secker, 332pp, £18.99
ISBN 1846550033
Books
The common reader
- 17 April 2006
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel: what to read and how to write
Jane Smiley Faber & Faber, 608pp, £16.99
ISBN 1400040590
Books
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
- 26 September 2005
A Little History of the World
E H Gombrich; translated by Caroline Mustill Yale University Press, 304pp, £14.99
ISBN 0300108834
Diary - Margaret Drabble
- 08 August 2005
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
Society
The backward look
- 16 May 2005
The Power of Delight: a lifetime in literature - essays, 1962-2002
John Bayley; selected by Leo Carey Duckworth, 677pp, £25
ISBN 0715633120
Arts & Culture
A floating world
- 01 March 2004
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
Books
Upstairs, downstairs
- 25 August 2003
The Victorian House
Judith Flanders HarperCollins, 476pp, £20
ISBN 0007131887
Books
Melancholy undercurrents
- 14 July 2003
Paradise of Cities: Venice and its 19th-century visitors
John Julius Norwich Viking, 283pp, £20
ISBN 067089401X
Books
More sound than sense
- 05 May 2003
Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the making of the King James Bible
Adam Nicolson HarperCollins, 280pp, £18.99
ISBN 0007108931
