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Clifford Wexford, de opkomende ster van een internationaal veilinghuis voor kunst, en Helen Lally, de dochter van een excentrieke kunstenaar, worden in de jaren '60 op het eerste gezicht verliefd en maken elkaar de volgende 20 jaar volkomen ongelukkig. Hun gepassioneerde ruzies leiden tot de verdwijning van hun prachtige driejarige dochter Nell, wiens bizarre avonturen haar in contact brengen met een bont gezelschap van seniele Franse duivelsaanbidders en vriendelijke Britse drugdealers. Met kenmerkende scherpe humor weeft Fay Weldon een soepel, modern sprookje, vol helden en heldinnen, slechteriken, goede feeën, kastelen en noodlottige toevalligheden.

In deze bonte verzameling literaire teksten vol humor en melancholie worden talrijke grenzen overschreden. Letterlijke grenzen tussen landen en culturen, maar ook figuurlijke tussen muziek en politiek, liefde en verraad, gezag en clandestiniteit. Op humoristische wijze overtroeft een doortastende vrouw haar verkrachters; een overledene vertelt hoe hij zijn tijd in de hemel slijt. Melancholieke herinneringen aan de jazzsaxofonist John Coltrarie in New York worden afgewisseld met herinneringen aan een bevriende junk uit de 'scene' in Belgrado. Een zakenvrouw wreekt zich op haar Tivale, de schoonheidskoningin van Zweden; een wanhopige man vermoordt Zijn VTOUW OM zijn eer te redden. Een vertaler vergeet zijn eed en richt daarmee groot onheil aan; een man steelt juwelen en verandert daardoor in een held. De verhalen, gedichten, songteksten en een toneelstuk zijn stuk voor stuk geïllustreerd en voorzien van biografische informatie en foto's van de auteurs. Debuterende en reeds succesvolle schrijvers Uit alle delen van de wereld leverden voor deze bundel originele bijdragen die nog nooit eerder in het Nederlands zijn gepubliceerd.

Drie vrouwen die elkaar tijdens de oorlog op het Engelse platteland leerden kennen en gezamenlijk opgroeiden, blijven, ook al zijn zij ieder hun eigen weg gegaan, sterk met elkaar verbonden.

Een gescheiden vrouw bezoekt na haar dood een aantal mensen om zich te wreken voor het haar aangedane onrecht.

PRAXIS is een moderne klassieker: het portret van een vrouw die in de tijd is geplaatst, maar toch tijdloos is. We zien haar eerst als de onschuldige Praxis Duveen, vijf jaar oud; we volgen haar terwijl de mannen in haar leven komen en gaan, door vele ingrijpende veranderingen in geluk en omstandigheden. Totdat ze, uit een zowel psychologische als echte gevangenis, tevoorschijn komt als Patty Fletcher, die als slecht wordt beschouwd als een vrouw maar toch haar eigen meesteres is.

Een vrouw neemt wraak op haar overspelige man.

Carmen, Laura en Annie zijn vriendinnen. Carmen is de leider, Laura de mooiste en Annie is altijd wanhopig. Ze wonen in een dorpje waar nooit iets gebeurt, althans niets wat meisjes van zestien interesseert. De nieuwe roman van Fay Weldon vertelt het verhaal van drie vriendinnen op zoek naar geld en geluk. Hoe bereiken ze dat? Door middel van het huwelijk, een carrière of seks? Is je een weg omhoog slapen hetzelfde als je ziel aan de duivel verkopen? In ieder geval is het een manier om rijk te worden en een luxueus leven te leiden. Maar welk voordeel levert het je uiteindelijk op? "Rijk worden" is een humoristische roman over de grote vragen in het leven van jonge vrouwen.

Een jonge vrouw troggelt een vrouw haar man af, waarop de verlaten vrouw wraak neemt door met haar Jaguar op haar rivale in te rijden.

Als een jonge Londense vrouw haar oma vertelt dat ze haar man wil verlaten voor een filmacteur, maakt ze daarmee geesten uit hun Nieuw-Zeelandse familieverleden los.

Keuze van verhalen van buitenlandse auteurs uit het fonds van de uitgeverijen Bert Bakker en Prometheus.

A new collection of short stories from the glitteringly talented author of The Cloning of Joanna May and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. The people in these stories--mothers, lovers, wives, and betrayers--all must make choices, and they all have something to learn.

Dracula, Lair of the White Work, Dracula's Guest

This collection of short stories dealing with the perils of love, sex, and marrage includes "In the Great War," "The School Run," and "The Sad Life of the Rich"

From a wickedly funny writer who never fails to amuse comes a memoir that looks back on her life as wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and bon vivant.

Follow Wanda, the tough 30s radical, her daughter Scarlet, unmarried, pregnant and frightened, and Scarlet's friends -- born victims, snobs, obsessive lovers -- in their absurd, nightmarish, often hilariously awful liaisons.

When Rex received his party invitation, he was in a bad temper and tore it up. His sister's tears and his Mother's scolding just made him angrier, so he crawled under the bed. The illustrations take the reader into Rex's dreams of fantastic parties. The author also wrote "Wolf the Mechanical Dog".

In the vengeful mode of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Weldon presents an electrifying tale of a marriage gone bad. After ten years of trying, a young novelist is delighted to learn she is pregnant. But her husband becomes cruel and distant--and accuses her of murdering his "inner child".

"An ordinary person carried to extremes" is how Sandra Harris describes herself, though her outrageous behaviour may make readers doubt this. Fay Weldon has written many books including "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" which was made into a television serial.

Into the lives of four female friends erupts Leslie Beck, an old flame not quite extinguished, who catapults them into their murky past. Leslie is still a man with a life force - a force which he is more than willing to share with old and new friends, provided of course that they are women.

These stories are aimed at readers of 'Good Housekeeping' magazine - primarily women aged 25 to 55 - and deal with the myriad issues facing women today. Each story is a generous bite size of well-written, self-contained fiction perfectly suited to holiday reading.

The second novel in Fay Weldon's Love and Inheritance trilogy, following the lives and loves of an aristocratic family at the turn of the nineteenth century.

A chilling tale that interweaves the post-Watergate world of American politics and the way in which our past indiscretions inevitably catch up with us. Isabel Acre's journey through life has taken her from the Australian outback via the beds and alleys of Fleet Street and the seamier side of Washington high life to a comfortable home in London, a reputation as a serious journalist, and a husband in the new chore-sharing, child-rearing mould. Suddenly, however, the past which Isabel had thought safely behind her becomes the source of actual physical danger. With frightening ease, the worlds of political intrigue and murderous conspiracy intrude into the cosiness of her domestic life. Whom can she trust? Man? When she reveals to her husband that she long ago had an affair with a young American senator, a man who is now challenging for the Presidential nomination itself, and that her son is the love-child of that affair, even she cannot foresee the consequences. Love got her into the predicament in which she finds herself; but can love now get her out of it?

The Shrapnel Academy, named after Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the exploding cannonball, is the setting for a modern-day Victorian house party. The occasion is the yearly observance of Wellington Weekend, attended by a curious assortment of visitors who stay in rooms named for military notables and are waited upon by a number of equally unusual Third World servants. All the ingredients are here for a witty romp, and the romp Weldon delivers culminates in absolute ridiculousness.

The third and final instalment in Fay Weldon's Love & Inheritance trilogy sees the Dilbernes frantically preparing for a visit from the Royals.

A novel of urban deceit and rural passion, of doctors, witches, birth and death. 'Many people dream of country cottages. Liffey dreamed for many years, and saw her dream come true one hot Sunday afternoon, in Somerset, in September... A trap closed around her. The getting of the country cottage, not the wanting - that was the trap.' Richard and Liffey, a young married couple, follow their dream of moving out of London to a country cottage in the middle of Somerset. Richard continues to live and work in London, coming to stay with Liffey only on weekends. Pregnant Liffey feels burdened, hampered, at the mercy of these biological impulses beyond her control. Then there are the odd neighbours, the Tuckers, to reckon with, and the looming shadow of Bella, Richard's lover in London, threatening the rural idyll Liffey had for so long imagined. With wit and wisdom, Fay Weldon paints a funny and shocking picture of the conflicts within these seemingly conventional lives, conflicts which seem inevitably to stem from the eternal struggle between male and female.

A collection of journalism from a topical and entertaining author. A cornucopia of a book, Godless in Eden brings together a selection of lectures and essays contributed to newspapers, magazines and books over recent years, revised for this volume, and all highly relevent to today. From the changing face of government, the feminisation of politics, life in Tony Blair’s godless and un-idealogical New Garden of Eden, to whence and whither Feminism via the new cult of Therapism, to our turbulent and benighted royals by way of Roseanne and Jamie Lee Curtis. A final treat in the final section, Growing Up and Moving On, some wonderfully incisive autobiographical snippets of Weldonian life and times.

Elsa, who has not a penny to her name except the scrapings from last week's pay packet, goes with her rich, 48-year-old friend and employer, Victor, to spend her 19th birthday in the household of his millionaire friend, Hamish.

A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer. ‘Watching Me, Watching You’ was Fay Weldon’s first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story, ‘Alopecia’, can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in ‘Threnody’, a women’s commune can be gently mocked, and the failings of the leading characters are human rather than masculine. Fay Weldon’s observation is always wonderfully acute and ‘Watching Me, Watching You’ is dominated throughout by her humour and intensity of purpose, giving to these stories a marvellous strength and unity. CONTENTS Christmas tree -- Breakages -- Alopecia -- Man with no eyes -- Holy stones -- Threnody -- Angel, all innocence -- Spirit of the house -- Watching me, watching you -- Geoffrey and the Eskimo child -- Weekend -- The fat woman's joke.

A spiky, feisty, hilarious collection of stories that expose women's clumsy, often doomed, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life. Abandoned wives remain as lingering presences in the homes of their ex-husband's new girlfriends; beautiful young models find their misdemeanours exposed for all the world to see in the tabloids; middle-aged women get swept off their feet and into the criminal underworld by charismatic con-men; young trophy wives get thrown in jail after over-exuberant cavorting on their private yachts; mothers beg their thirty something career-minded daughters to freeze their eggs in the hope that they may one day bear their grandchildren. Bold, glamorous, sexy, unrepentant, Fay Weldon's heroines offer a quite unique view of the world as they face their trials without fear or trepidation. Both her legions of existing fans and new readers will be enthralled.

A pitch-perfect story of life above and below stairs and an elegy to the last days of aristocracy and Empire.

The author of the novels Life Force, The Hearts and Lives of Men, and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil offers an irreverent, wildly funny, and unerringly persuasive answer to the ever-enticing question: If I ruled the world, what would I do? "A wickedly funny, multilayered treatise on feminism, marriage, sex, journalism, and the class system".--People.

Sir Edwin Rice has decided to divorce Lady Angelica. She has behaved intolerably and is accused of abuse, violence, bestiality and lesbianism. But there is more to Angelica than her husband realizes - she is a wife, a tart, a star, a secretary and a brooding chap called Ajax. She is Everywoman.

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here Esther Wells goes on a diet and the scales fall from her eyes. Depriving themselves of fatty foods, both husband and wife have new perspectives on each other, and the process is one of slow destruction of their marriage. Esther tells in flashback, from the depths of her basement apartment in Earls Court, the history of her marital disaster - in between her consumption of chocolate cake, tinned fruit, sweet sherry and a host of other high-calorie goodies. This novel examines the role of Womanhood. The time is the mid-sixties when sex role stereotypes are being examined and rejected, and Fay Weldon's book reflects the passions, humor, and anger of an era when women's self-analysis entailed a good deal of disruption. This novel depicts the rage and outrage of that traumatic era.

An astonishing novel that probes into the strange world of genetic engineering.

A collection of stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deprecation rules, where a bully can believe he is a victim, a blackmailer see herself as a healer and an artist's slave be sure she is free.

Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern writer responds to her niece's complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant. By turns passionate and ironic, "Aunt Fay" makes Alice think--not only about books and literature, but also life and culture.

Sophia Moore, a 34-year-old film editor in London, navigates her loveless life while believing her only relative is her unpredictable grandmother Felicity. The narrative unfolds with humor, revealing family secrets and the unexpected joys of late-life romance. With vibrant characters and clever storytelling, Fay Weldon delivers a delightful exploration of relationships and the surprises that come with them.

From the hilarious opening to the satisfying final conflagration, Fay Weldon's Worst Fears is a taut, scathing revelation of the nature of marital intimacy. When Alexandra returns from her stint on the London stage to find her husband mysteriously dead of a heart attack and her female friends ominously invested in smoothing out all the complications of the tragedy, she begins to be suspicious. At first she attributes this to grief, then to paranoia. But she soon finds herself starting to crack, crank-calling her friends' psychiatrist, attacking people with kitchen chairs and breaking into their houses, searching furiously for evidence to confirm her husband's rampant adultery and her own worst fears. "A snappy whodunit of the heart....one of Weldon's best novels yet." -- The New York Times Book Review; "With a dash of murder mystery and a wink at Isben's grim tales of ruined marriages, this splendid and spiteful novel shows Fay Weldon to be in as fine form as ever." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer; "A hundred years hence, if people can still read, Weldon's books will likely have the unblunted edge of Jane Austen, an unsentimental Baedeker guide to sexual manners in an ill-mannered age. Fay Weldon breaks taboos like tape at a marathon, and she hasn't stopped running yet." -- Los Angeles Times.

'Elegantly written, sharply perceptive and fantastically good fun' Daily Mail .

Hattie and her partner Martyn hire an au pair named Agnieszka who creates trouble in Hattie's life.

An absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London.

Hardcover with Dustjacket. 329 pages. A group of high-achieving ladies gather at the remote and expensive Castle Spa over the ten days of Christmas and New Year. None of them have met before. As the ladies lounge around in the Jacuzzi, drinking champagne, eating caviar and chocolate, they confess the startling and scandalous stories of their lives.

The wicked stepmother is a classic figure of literature. From "Cinderella" to "Hamlet", she is portrayed as an evil manipulator out to do down her husband's children. Reality is all too often the reverse, with stepchildren using all their cunning to do down daddy's new wife in a no holds barred, down and dirty fight to the death. Being on the receiving end of that kind of attack is no fun at all, as Fay's heroine can tell you. And tell you she does in her only solace - her secret diary that is her lifeline. Fay's unique insights into the workings of the female mind, her comprehensive knowledge of family relationships and her wisdom about life in general are all brought brilliantly to bear in this fairytale for our times.

An insightful satire follows Nell Bolton, a woman in her forties with a husband in jail, a Valium addiction, and a tyrannical teenage daughter, as she fights for survival amidst the media, feminists, and the literary sharks of yuppie society.

Nel cuore della notte, Frances sente bussare alla porta: sono i funzionari del nuovo governo, pronti a confiscare le sue proprietà. Un tempo scrittrice di successo, nel 2013 si ritrova povera, sola e anziana, confinata nella sua casa al numero 3 di Chalcot Crescent. Per fuggire dalla realtà, si rifugia nella scrittura, l'arte che le ha dato tutto. Così, ci offre un affresco storico arricchito da cronache quotidiane sulla sua numerosa e strampalata famiglia, narrando con ironia cinquant'anni di eventi cruciali come il crollo del comunismo e la nascita di un nuovo governo tirannico. Non mancano siparietti con il nipote tossico e rivoluzionario, gli amori della sua gioventù, l'astio di una figlia vetero femminista e le tribolazioni dell'altra, sposata a un politico di spicco. Man mano che Frances si immerge nel suo racconto, il confine tra realtà e fantasia diventa labile, alimentando dubbi e timori. Dove vanno a finire gli abitanti del quartiere quando il governo li "ricolloca"? E cosa contiene il Polpettone Nazionale, surrogato di carne per un'Inghilterra indigente? Surreale e intricato, il libro ci trascina in una danza della mente, lasciandoci con la sensazione di aver letto un'opera di grande originalità.

Groteskní vyprávění o nevydařené oslavě narozenin vynálezce dělostřeleckého šrapnelu zaujme vylíčením mikrosvěta, v němž najednou začnou vřít problémy, odedávna hýbající lidskou společností.

Nackt lesen macht Laune. Für diese außergewöhnliche Sammlung erotischer Geschichten haben zwanzig bekannte britische Autorinnen alle Hüllen fallengelassen und beweisen, frau kann über Sex schreiben – und zwar humorvoll, unverkrampft und herrlich unterhaltsam. Das Ergebnis: zwanzig ganz besondere Gutenachtgeschichten für Erwachsene. Schlüpfen Sie unter die Laken – süße Träume sind garantiert! «Unverkrampft sexy.» (Glamour)

Jednoho dnes se Sapfo objeví přede dveřmi psychoanalytické ordinace, kde pracuje její matka, a rychle jí předá rukopis se slovy, že jde o její deníky. Populární anglická autorka tak začíná příběh ženy, kterou všichni odrazovali, aby se vdala za vdovce Gavina. Je pro ni moc starý, říkali jedni, jiní zase upozorňovali na možnost, že chlap si vyhlédnul jen její dům. A že prý jí jeho děti ze života udělají peklo. To je všechno možné, ale citům neporučíš.

Hrdinkou románu britské autorky je dívka Elsa, která se zamiluje do ženatého muže. Zklamaná prožívá další aférku s milionářem, z níž odchází využitá a bez iluzí. Její protihráčkou je milionářova žena Gemma, která sice dosáhla bohatství, ale za cenu psychického i faktického zmrzačení.

Bissiger und frecher Roman über Annette und Spicer, deren über 10jährige Ehe durch die Machenschaften zweier unseriöser Psychotherapeuten zerbrochen wird.

In der Aufbruchsstimmung der 70er Jahre gründen 4 Freundinnen einen Verlag, der als erster nur von Frauen betrieben wird und nur Bücher für Frauen herausgibt. Was nach aussen als Bollwerk gegen die männliche Vorherrschaft aussieht, gestaltet sich im Innern nicht immer harmonisch.

Hlavními protihráči románu jsou zámožný podnikatel, úspěšná, ambiciózní mladá žena, se kterou se nově oženil, a jeho bývalá odstrčená manželka, nečekaně mládnoucí po boku nového milence.

Humoristicky laděný román, v němž život koriguje představy mladého manželského páru o romantickém životě na anglickém venkově.

Dielo Manželský horoskop, ktoré vyšlo v roku 1993, je fascinujúcim obrazom manželstva ako nočnej mory, čo prenasleduje ženu terorizovanú najbližším človekom i bezprostredným okolím. Hoci hrdinka románu Annette Horrocksová má zdanlivo všetko, aby mohla byť spokojná - dom, deti i šarmantného manžela, len čo v nej začne klíčiť nový život, šťastie dostáva trhliny... Do hry totiž vstupujú úklady psychiatrov, psychoterapeutov a astrológov, ktoré rozvracajú krehké vzťahy a prinášajú priam hororové odhalenia, nesúce sa v tajuplnej, iracionálnej atmosfére, po ktorých vyzerá všetko ináč, ako sa javilo navonok.

Po čem ženy touží? Sex, nakupování, čokoláda a občas i něco jiného. Ale co dělat, když se sexu nedostává, rodina se proměnila v peklo na zemi a vy se opět - pochopitelně neúspěšně - pokoušíte zhubnout. Úspěšná britská autorka Fay Weldonová radí, jak se v takových případech chovat. Vtipně, inteligentně a se šarmem vypráví o ženském hledání štěstí, zákoutích orgasmu a věcech, ke kterým žena muže tu a tam potřebuje.

Fay Weldon beleuchtet mit Witz, Ironie und Sarkasmus die verschiedenen Rollen der Frau in der Gesellschaft in ihren Erzählungen.

Von Harrison, Sarah ; Weldon, Fay ; Keller, Claudia 607 S.

In diesen vierzehn Erzählungen aus den Jahren 1981-91 geht es um die Erfahrungen von Frauen im Ehe- und Familienalltag. Enthält u.a.: Der Mann ohne Augen. Krankhafter Haarausfall. Angel, in aller Unschuld. Schau zurück, wenn du nach vorn schaust. Wochenende. Im Grossen Krieg. Geburtstag. Auf dem Lande.

Jünger, dünner, schöner - Grace kann nicht anders als sie zu hassen, die glamouröse Rivalin, die ihr ihren Mann Barley ausgespannt hat. Sie sinnt auf Rache, vorerst erfolglos. Doch dann wendet sich das Blatt, und Baulöwe Barley muss feststellen, dass nicht alles Gold ist, was glänzt: Hätte er zum Beispiel geahnt, dass seine Geliebte für ein Bulgari- Collier buchstäblich über Leichen geht, wäre er wohl bei seiner Frau geblieben. „Ein herrlich verrückter Roman über Grace und die wundersamen Wege der Liebe.“ Für Sie „Die böse Fay versteht es wunderbar, zu entzaubern.“ Diva „Der beste Reklame-Roman der Welt.“