Search

Your search keyword '"The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews"' showing total 8 results
Start Over Descriptor "The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews"
8 results on '"The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews"'

1. Blue sky reads: publishers and booksellers reveal which titles they'll be reading on their summer holiday. (Symposium)

Subjects
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Novel) -- Book reviews, The House of the Spirits (Novel) -- Book reviews, Anybody Can do Anything (Book), Dirt Music (Novel) -- Book reviews, P Is for Peril (Novel) -- Book reviews, Revolutionary Road (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Plague and I (Book), Tuck Everlasting (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Universe in a Nutshell (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Empire Falls (Novel) -- Book reviews, American Beauty (Book), Twelve Bar Blues (Novel) -- Book reviews, Unless (Novel) -- Book reviews, Niagara Falls All over Again (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Weaker Vessel (Novel) -- Book reviews, Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Novel) -- Book reviews, Galactic Hero (Book), Death in Holy Orders (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Slaves of Solitude (Novel) -- Book reviews, George Orwell: A Life (Book), Silent Stars (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, The Final Country (Novel) -- Book reviews, First Lady (Book), Honeycote (Book), An African in Greenland (Book), The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Corrections (Novel) -- Book reviews, Marie Antoinette (Biography) -- Book reviews, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Provence & Cote d' Azur (Book), Italian Language Builder (Book), The Rock (Novel) -- Book reviews, Daughter of Fortune (Novel) -- Book reviews, Smashing People (Book), All Families Are Psychotic (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Ambassadors (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Egg and I (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Onions in the Stew (Novel) -- Book reviews, Portrait in Sepia (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Business, international, Publishing industry, Retail industry
Abstract

Jenny Morris Manager, The Lion & Unicorn Bookshop, Richmond, London When I get away from it all this summer I will want to switch off instantly and turning to crime [...]

Published
2002

2. THE IDEA OF PERFECTION

Author

King, Francis Henry

Subjects
The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Political science
Abstract

THE IDEA OF PERFECTION by Kate Grenville Picador, 6.99 £, pp. 401, ISBN 0330392611 How can one regard the 30,000 £ Orange Prize, for which only women novelists are eligible, [...]

Published
2001

3. New & noteworthy: (fiction set in turn-of-the-century England and in the Australian bush; ghosts in the darkroom)

Author

Marcus, James

Subjects
The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Haunting of L. (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Go-Between (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

THE HAUNTING OF L. by Howard Norman Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 326 pages $24.00 On the face of it, Howard Norman's fifth book is a nice, comfy historical novel, set [...]

Published
2002

4. Grenville, Kate. The Idea of Perfection

Author

Haggas, Carol

Subjects
The Idea of Perfection (Book) -- Grenville, Kate, The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Business, Publishing industry
Abstract

Grenville, Kate. The Idea of Perfection. Apr. 2002. 401p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03080-5). Saving the picturesque Bent Bridge becomes both cause and catalyst for the most unlikely of love affairs when [...]

Published
2002

5. The Idea of Perfection. (Fiction)

Subjects
The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Business, Library and information science, Publishing industry
Abstract

* Grenville, Kate Viking (416 pp.) S24.95 Apr. 1, 2002 ISBN: 0-670-03080-5 There's a smile--if not an outright belly laugh--on every page of this delicious comic novel (winner of Britain's [...]

Published
2002

6. And bear in mind

Subjects
The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews, THE DOUBLE BOND. Primo Levi: A Biography (Book), NAPOLEON: A Biography (Book), This Cold Country (Novel) -- Book reviews, A SIMPLE HABANA MELODY: (From When the World Was Good), (Book), Three Junes (Novel) -- Book reviews, Big If (Novel) -- Book reviews, THE LAYING ON OF HANDS: Stories (Book), The Weather in Berlin (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

(Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest) THE WEATHER IN BERLIN, by Ward Just. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) In this novel by a skilled observer of America's top people, [...]

Published
2002

8. The Idea of Perfection

Author

Neville, Maureen

Subjects
The Idea of Perfection (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Library and information science
Abstract

Grenville, Kate. The Idea of Perfection. Viking. Apr. 2002. c.401p. ISBN 0-67003080-5. $24.95. F This fifth novel by renowned Australian author Grenville (Lilian's Story), winner of the Orange Prize, presents [...]

Published
2002

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results