Iris Murdoch
Nuns And Soldiers
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works.
Polish exile and imaginary soldier, the 'Count' watches over Gertrude with loving patience. An accomplished scroun... Buy or find out more →
An Accidental Man
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'Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable' Raymond Mortimer
This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accid... Buy or find out more →
The Sandcastle
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century.' Peter Conradi, The Guardian
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter,... Buy or find out more →
The Time And The Angels
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century. Above all, she kept the traditional novel alive, and in so doing changed what it is capable of' Guardian
Carel is rector of a non-e... Buy or find out more →
The Book And The Brotherhood
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'A thoroughly gripping, stimulating, and challenging fiction' The Times
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends 'commissioned' one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. 'Why s... Buy or find out more →
The Red And The Green
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Set in Ireland in 1916, it is the eve of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin...
Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religi... Buy or find out more →
Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals
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'Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings-There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundamental human importance in a way that they have never quite ... Buy or find out more →
An Unofficial Rose
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
The nine characters in this novel are all looking for love; and so closely is the web woven that the actions and apssions of each are constantly affecting the others. The irony and pathos of this tangled situation has ex... Buy or find out more →
A Word Child
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'She is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour' 11Ie Times
Hilary Burde, saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, cherishes his obsessive guilt... Buy or find out more →
The Unicorn
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Marian Taylor, who has come as a 'companion' to a lonely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her own obsessions, but of an unforgiving husband. Hannah, the Unicorn, seemin... Buy or find out more →
The Flight From The Enchanter
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A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe, a high-minded bluestocking under ... Buy or find out more →
The Italian Girl
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life.
Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, ... Buy or find out more →
Under The Net
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Iris Murdoch's first novel is a gem - solid and sparkling. Set in a part of London, where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is... Buy or find out more →
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and dev... Buy or find out more →
Sartre
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Sartre's powerful political passions were united to a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time. This study analyses and evaluates the different strands o... Buy or find out more →
Severed Head
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Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts ... Buy or find out more →
The Nice And The Good
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, the self-gra... Buy or find out more →
Philosophers Pupil
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When George McCaffrey\u2019s car plunges into a canal with his wife still inside, nobody knows whether George is to blame. Nobody, that is, except an Anglican priest who happened to witness the whole thing. And when Geor... Buy or find out more →
Iris Murdoch A Writer At War Letters & Diaries 1938 1946
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Short Books
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The Bell
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'A distinguished novelist of a rare kind' Kingsley Amis
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic... Buy or find out more →
Sovereignty Of Good
$24.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
What is obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything, even God. In these essays, she explores questions of good and bad, myth and morality. Buy or find out more →
Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her
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A brilliant, controversial and insightful biography from the author of the universally acclaimedThe Victorians. A.N. Wilson’s tutor at Oxford was John Bayley, and it was there that Wilson met Irish Murdoch. He remained a... Buy or find out more →
The Sea, The Sea
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in orde... Buy or find out more →