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'Absorbing and quietly uncompromising, redolent with the vibrant smells and colours of Majorca, and of Spain' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A highly revealing acco...
'A darkly comedic tale of adultery that features a dangerously "good" and disciplined heroine' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Throughout her career Bawden has concen...
'Bawden has concentrated on the careful depiction of character, feelings and behaviour' GUARDIAN 'On every page there is a shock of recognition' SUNDA...
'Dazzlingly effective . . . not easy to forget' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Continually surprising, witty and often disquieting, Walking Naked is one of Nina Baw...
Cora and her older brother and sister are to stay with her grandparents for six months while their parents are in Japan. When Granny is hospitalized, ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOST MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and shows them as paradoxical, crotchety, adulterous, a...
'This is the off-side of lust in plush suburbia, described by a crypto-moralist with a mischievous sense of humour' SUNDAY TIMES 'A born story-teller'...
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On the Scottish island of Skua, friendship develops between the lonely and mysterious Perdita and a blind girl, Janey. Both possess a kind of second s...
When an unexpected inheritance threatens to change his life with his adopted family in London, an eleven-year-old foundling runs away from home....
When the Second World War air raids threaten their safety in the city, Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a small Welsh village. But the cou...
Catriona Natasha Brooke's granny is totally unlike other people's grandmothers. When she isn't dressed in motorbike leathers, Granny the Pag wears dir...
Evacuated to the English countryside during World War II, a fatherless family tries to raise a baby squirrel that also lost its home....
'A cast of nice, idiosyncratic characters . . . in the Turkish political climate' NEW YORK TIMES 'She held her readers' attention with her taut, inven...
'The reader is thoroughly entranced and entertained' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P....
Fanny Pye's London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth a small fortune. When she intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalise...
Leaving one's husband is not an easy thing to do, particularly after many years of comfortable married life. Penelope's sudden decision to leave Eddie...
Nine-year-old Phillip has always lived with his grandmother, but when his widowed father remarries he finds that he must suddenly adjust to a new way ...
'It is a measure of Bawden's skill, that she manages to show both the terrors of extreme longevity and its comic potential' THE TIMES 'An upper-middle...
An English story about an abused child....
BY THE BELOVED AUTHOR OF CARRIE'S WAR AND THE PEPPERMINT PIG 'A subtle and many-layered story, one of Nina Bawden's best' OBSERVER 'What a consummate ...
Today, Tuesday, the day that Penelope has chosen to leave her husband, is the first really warm day of spring...' Penelope has always done her best to...
Almost an Autobiography
'A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels' INDEPENDENT 'A joy' David Holloway, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Casts light on th...
'A born story-teller' INDEPENDENT 'Nina Bawden has always presented such ingratiating characters that you wonder, distantly, at her interest in Anna' ...
'Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up a giant space in your heart' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S FICTION 'Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up a giant space i...
The beloved children's classic
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY EMMA CARROLL 'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'What a deep, dark, deceptively simple, brilliant novel it...
โGive this to fans of Lowryโs The Giver.โโBooklist It is the year 2035, and kids are the only ones who matter. In Tomโs world, every family ...
Accidents happen to other people. But on On May 10th 2002, Nina Bawden discovered what it feels like to be one of the 'other people'. It was to be a l...
A retelling of the story of William Tell, who shot an apple from his son's head and ultimately was responsible for the formation of the country of Swi...
In this abridged adaptation of the classic novel, a lonely orphan discovers the wonders of a mysterious garden and befriends her invalid cousin....
A thriller about human trafficking and the sex slave trade in Melbourne. When a Chinese mother arrives in Melbourne to find her missing daughter, she ...
Het valt Carrie niet mee als zij en haar broertje in huis komen bij een strenge kruidenier en zijn zuster. Gelukkig worden ze goede vrienden met de hu...
For thirty years Carrie has not spoken of Druid's Bottom where she and her brother sheltered from the war. It is left to Carrie's own children to unra...
The Witch's Daughter ; The Peppermint Pig
A biography of the young Italian who gave up his wealth in order to devote his life to preaching God's word and caring for the poor....