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Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker (born 21 May 1948) is a British writer of non-fiction and fiction books since 1985. In 1994, her novel Consider the Lily won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, and she was elected its eighteenth Chairman (1995–1997). Her novel, Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman (2001), has been made into a television film for CBS. Biography Personal life Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker was born on 21 May 1948 in Guildford, Surrey, England, the daughter of Major Peter Oakleigh-Walker and Eleanor Mary Peters. In the 1970s, she obtained a double degree in English and History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. On 20 April 1974, she married Benjamin William Alastair Buchan (b. 1948), grandson of the novelist and politician John Buchan. They have one son, Adam Peter Alastair Buchan (b. 1980), and a daughter, Eleanor Rose Buchan (b. 1983). Writing career She started working as a blurb writer for Penguin Books (1974–1989), and later, since 1989 as fiction editor at Random House. After the publication of her third novel, she became a full-time writer. She lives in London. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in magazines. She has been a judge for Whitbread (now Costa) Awards, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot Awards and reviews for the Sunday Times. She is also a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and the National Academy of Writing. Bibliography Game book Ice Dancer (1985) Collections A Dashing Young Tiger Named Jack (poems) (1987) (with Scoular Anderson) Non-fiction Beatrix Potter: The Story of the Creator of Peter Rabbit (1987) Single novels Daughters of the Storm (1988) Light of the Moon (1991) Consider the Lily (1993) Perfect Love (1995) Against Her Nature (1997) Secrets of the Heart (2000) The Good Wife (2003) a.k.a. The Good Wife Strikes Back (US title) That Certain Age (2004) a.k.a. Everything She Thought She Wanted (US title) Separate Beds (2010) Daughters (2012) I Can't Begin to Tell You (2014) The New Mrs Clifton (2016) The Museum of Broken Promises, Corvus (2019), ISBN 9781786495280 Two Women in Rome, Corvus (2021) The Two Mrs Lloyd Series Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2001) The Second Wife (2006) a.k.a. Wives Behaving Badly (US title) References and sources . Discover the Elizabeth Buchan popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elizabeth Buchan books.
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A Literary Review
Søren Kierkegaard & Alastair HannayWhile ostensibly commenting on the work of a contemporary novelist, Kierkegaard used this review as a critique of his society and age. The influence of this short piece has been fa...
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The Sleepover Joke Book
Sandy RansfordA new collection of hilarious jokes on anything and everything to do with sleepovers. Divided into sections, it features all the fun of sleepover visits, the food, the videos, the ...
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Some Anatomies of Melancholy
Robert BurtonNot simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devi...
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Like Mother, Like Daughter
Georgina BrownAlthough neither of them would admit it, mother Liz and daughter Rachel are very alike. For instance, they share the same appetite for sex. But whil Rachel is enjoying new sexual e...
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An Apology for Raymond Sebond
Michel MontaigneAn Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's ...
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Sisters
Prue LeithGrowing up in the outback of South Africa, sensible Poppy realized she would always have to look out for her younger sister, the beautiful, wild, and unreliable Carrie. Years later...
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How It Ends
Dan CollinsFollowing a stint as a Las Vegas showgirl and an early botched marriage, Lee Annis has finally found some definition and success as part of Anaconda, the band she fronts alongside ...
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By Battersea Bridge
Janet DaveyAnita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her more confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are...
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The Blue And Distant Hills
Judith SaxtonA young girl's search for her identity and for a love that can overcome her past.Questa Adamson is stranded in Italy for the duration of the Second World War. When she finally retu...
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How To Survive From Nine To Five
Jilly Cooper OBEJilly Cooper's witty thumbnail sketch of office life part valentine, part poison pen letter offers a vivid evocation of the world in which many of us spend a large part of ou...
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Ice Queen
Suzanne BlaylockDrawn together by an accident of time and circumstance, a disparate group of women all hide behind masks of cool deception, but when their paths cross, the ice soon melts in a furn...
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The Secret Agent
Joseph ConradIn the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent; communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory i...
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Penguin Pocket Jokes
David PickeringHave you heard the one about the man who walked into a bar? (Ouch!)... Penguin Pocket Jokes is essential (and hilarious) reading for anyone searching for the perfect joke. Whether ...
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On Government
CiceroThese pioneering writings on the mechanics, tactics, and strategies of government were devised by the Roman Republic's most enlightened thinker.
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Wildwood
Janine AshblessAvril Shearing is a landscape gardener brought in to reclaim an overgrown woodland for the handsome and manipulative Michael Deverick. But among the trees lurks a tribe of environm...
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Monsoon Summer
Julia GregsonBy the awardwinning author of East of the Sun, “a powerful and memorable novel” (Publishers Weekly) about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife.Ox...
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Soldiers and Lovers
Leslie ThomasIn a sunlit, secret valley in the green mountains of central Italy, two people meet away from the horrors and clamour of battle. David Hopkins, a young fisherman from west Wales an...
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The Common Years
Jilly Cooper OBEDuring the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the ef...
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The Affair
Hilary BoydEscape to the sundrenched shores of Lake Como in the irresistible and gripping new novel from the millioncopy bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park, The Anniversary and The L...
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The Story of Us
Felicity EverettIt is 1982 and Thatcher is in Downing Street, Human League is in the charts and Dallas is on the telly.But the girls of Albacore Street are too busy to notice. For Stella, Bridget,...
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Urne-Burial
Thomas BrowneThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They ...
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The Book of the Courtier
Baldesar Castiglione & George BullIn The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of im...
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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
A. SpearingContains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which fo...
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The Missing Sister
Dinah JefferiesA STOLEN SISTER. A DAUGHTER DETERMINED TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH.'I was gripped, moved and utterly in thrall to this deeply emotional and compelling tale' Kate Furnivall'A moving and co...
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Hunting People
Hunter DaviesHunter Davies's first major interview was with John Masefield for The Sunday Times in 1963. In the years since, he has interviewed many of the most famous people that the late ...
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Medieval Writings on Secular Women
Penguin Books Ltd'Woman, who is equal to the moon in the flower of youth,Is equal to a little old ape after the onset of old age'This remarkable collection brings together a host of writings from a...
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Running Away
Leslie ThomasWritten with the characteristic wit and good humour, Leslie Thomas's novel tells the story of a grown man who runs away from home, and the adventures that befall him in his que...
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Love
Stendhal, Gilbert Sale & Suzanne SaleIn 1818, when he was in his midthirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not...
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A Perfect Husband
Hilary Boyd'Tackles a difficult subject with a light touch to keep you turning the pages' VERONICA HENRYA perfect husbandTo their friends, Lily and Freddy have a great marriage. He taught h...
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Natural History
Pliny the ElderPliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, ...
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The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James'Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and turns of the months and the years, like a crouching beast in the jungle.'Henry James's devastating and profoundly movin...
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The Great Monster Joke Book
Amanda LiWhat sort of jokes do werewolves like best?Howlers!What's worse than being surrounded by huge great scary monsters? Being surrounded by AWFUL JOKES ABOUT MONSTERS! Think you can st...
