Drabble, Margaret 1939-

The Oxford companion to English literature( Book )
84 editions published between 1985 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 5,081 libraries worldwide
Contains 9,000 alphabetical entries including biographical information on authors, composers and artists, 2,000 plot summaries, movements in literature, literary prizes, and articles on literary societies.

The radiant way by Margaret Drabble( Book )
46 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in 7 languages and held by 2,131 libraries worldwide
Traces the lives of three Englishwomen, good friends since Cambridge, as they cope with changes in their world and within themselves.

A natural curiosity by Margaret Drabble( Book )
44 editions published between 1989 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 2,030 libraries worldwide
Continues the story of Alix, Liz, and Esther Breuer begun in "The radiant way" and now in "post-imperial, post industrial" 1980s England seeking to learn the truths of their lives.

The realms of gold by Margaret Drabble( Book )
58 editions published between 1968 and 1992 in 7 languages and held by 1,988 libraries worldwide

The middle ground by Margaret Drabble( Book )
57 editions published between 1980 and 1989 in 9 languages and held by 1,853 libraries worldwide
A successful journalist and vibrant woman in her forties pauses in her life before opening herself to the unseen future.

The ice age by Margaret Drabble( Book )
60 editions published between 1977 and 2004 in 10 languages and held by 1,844 libraries worldwide
A constellation of lives in the hard-pressed England of of the sixties and seventies, each at a crucial point of change. At the center: an energetic, interesting woman at midlife, a pretty ex-actress anxiously caring for her family while experimenting inside a new, generous, romantic relationship; and her lover, a handsome man of tact and feeling, dissatisfied with his past, leaving his respectable BBC job and entering the excitements and corruptions of high (chancy) finance. Around them, others who represent facets of their future: a real estate tycoon enmeshed in a tricky, ambitious enterprise that has catastrophically backfired; a young rogue of a girl poised between the joys of being kept by an adventurer and a longing for respectable marriage; and a troubled teenager testing her mother's love while involved in a terrifying imbroglio behind the Iron Curtain.--Adapted from www.redmood.com

The peppered moth by Margaret Drabble( Book )
32 editions published between 2000 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 1,802 libraries worldwide
When Faro Gaulden visits Breaseborough, a mining town in South Yorkshire, she wonders what her life would have been like had her grandmother not left there as a young girl. As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself, not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be near extinction but is now enjoying a sudden unexplained resurgence.

The red queen : a transcultural tragicomedy by Margaret Drabble( Book )
32 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 1,781 libraries worldwide
Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.

The needle's eye, a novel by Margaret Drabble( Book )
74 editions published between 1972 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 1,776 libraries worldwide
Rose Vassilou, divorced from an unpredictable husband, attempts to obtain custody of their three children. Unhappily married, her lawyer becomes emotionally involved with her.

The witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble( Book )
36 editions published between 1976 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 1,772 libraries worldwide
An eccentric English grandmother as seen by her children. One of the more disturbing aspects of Frieda Palmer, a wealthy freethinker and political crusader, is that she has sold the family house to live as a hermit. The children are worried she might blow the rest of the inheritance.