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    Carrie’s War: 50th Anniversary Luxury Edition

    Nina Bawden

    A beautiful hardback edition to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most beloved and enduring children’s classics of the 20th century.

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    Carrie’s War

    Nina Bawden

    One of the most loved and enduring wartime novels, Carrie’s War is a modern classic. Published for the first time as a Virago Modern Classic, with a new foreword by…

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    Devil By The Sea

    Nina Bawden

    Nina Bawden’s great talent is to be able to take you along a perfectly ordinary street, rip the facade away and show the strange and passionate events that go on…

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    George Beneath A Paper Moon

    Nina Bawden

    I like it as much as any novel I’ve read this year. The comedy lies, as in the best and subtlest of comedies, in the exquisite patterning, they way in…

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    A Grain Of Truth

    Nina Bawden

    This is the off-side of lust in plush suburbia, described by a crypto-moralist with a mischievous sense of humour’ Sunday Times

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    Anna Apparent

    Nina Bawden

    Tells the story from childhood through to adulthood of Anna, a neglected and abused wartime evacuee.

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    The Ice House

    Nina Bawden

    Nina Bawden’s great talent is to be able to take you along a perfectly ordinary street, rip the facade away and show the strange and passionate events that go on…

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    A Little Love, A Little Learning

    Nina Bawden

    By the author of ‘Circles of Deceit’ and ‘Tortoise by Candlelight’, this novel shows the fragility of a family’s equilibrium. Three children live with their mother and are happy in…

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    A Nice Change

    Nina Bawden

    The Hotel Parthenon provides the setting for a farcical chance meeting between an MP recovering from piles, his wife, his mistress, his father, an American publisher recovering from his father’s…

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    Tortoise By Candlelight

    Nina Bawden

    An exceptional picture of disorganised family life … Imaginative, tender, with a welcome undercurrent of toughness’ Observer

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    The Secret Passage

    Nina Bawden

    Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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    A Handful of Thieves

    Nina Bawden

    Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother’s savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and Clio launch on a series of sleuthing activities to trace the…

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    In Honour Bound

    Nina Bawden

    Nina Bawden made her mark early in her career as a writer of excellent mysteries, especially remarkable for her observation of character. Out-of-print for many years, seven of these classic…

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    Under The Skin

    Nina Bawden

    Nina Bawden made her mark early in her career writing novels for adults, especially remarkable for her observation of character. Out-of-print for many years, seven of these classic novels are…

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    Walking Naked

    Nina Bawden

    Dazzlingly effective … not easy to forget’ Financial Times

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    A Woman Of My Age

    Nina Bawden

    Nina Bawden, one of Britain’s most distinguished novelists, both for adults and children, ‘is a born story-teller’ Independent

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    Afternoon Of A Good Woman

    Nina Bawden

    * An engaging novel about public appearance and private behaviour not always matching up…

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    Carrie’s War

    Nina Bawden

    Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters. Age 12+

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    Circles Of Deceit

    Nina Bawden

    * Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this marvellous novel is about the heroic yet impossible desire to protect another human being with love

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    Ruffian On The Stair

    Nina Bawden

    From this well-loved author comes a novel that is ‘an upper- middle-class version of Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies’ (Independent on Sunday), full of intrigues, betrayals and family secrets. In…

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    The Birds On The Trees

    Nina Bawden

    The expulsion from school of their son shatters the comfortable middle-class security of Maggie and Charlie. Toby’s diffidence, drug-taking and refusal to discuss, disturb them sufficiently to seek professional help…

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    In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography

    Nina Bawden

    In this, her autobiography, author Nina Bawden tells of her evacuation to Suffolk and Wales during World War II, where she was billeted with seven different families, and of her…

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    Carrie’s War

    Nina Bawden,Emma Reeves

    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 countryside has dangers…

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    Keeping Henry

    Nina Bawden

    Nina Bawden is a longstanding author on the VMC list, but this is the first time we will publish her children’s novels. Carrie’s War and The Peppermint Pig are firm…

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    The Peppermint Pig: ‘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

    Nina Bawden

    This is Virago’s first publication of one of Nina Bawden’s most famous books for children. The Peppermint Pig, which won the Guardian Award for Children’s Fiction, has been a great…

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    Someone at a Distance

    Dorothy Whipple,Nina Bawden

    Presents an ordinary tale about the destruction of a happy marriage.

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    Someone at a Distance

    Dorothy Whipple,Nina Bawden

    ‘A very good novel indeed’ (Spectator), first published in 1953, about an Englishman’s tragic destruction of his previously happy marriage. Preface by Nina Bawden.

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