Margaret Drabble

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1969
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Waterfall

    Jane and Malcolm Gray’s marriage is characterized by sexual unhappiness and the growing apathy they both feel toward one another. When Jane is confined to bed rest while pregnant with their second child, Malcolm realizes he must escape, leaving Jan...

  • The Needle's Eye

    "THE NEEDLE'S EYE is that rare thing, a book one wishes were longer than it is."

    THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

    Rose Vassiliou and Simon Camish meet at a friend's dinner party. He's a barrister in a loveless marriage, she's divorced, but ...

  • Thank You All Very Much

  • A Summer Bird-cage

    Attractive and witty, Sarah has just graduated from Oxford and started a new job at the BBC. As she immerses herself in the excitement of 1960s London, her beautiful older sister, Louise, marries the famous, though admittedly difficult, novelist Step...

  • Millstone

    The story of an upper-middle-class unwed mother in 1960s London, from a novelist who is often as meticulous as Jane Austen and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh (Los Angeles Times). In a newly swinging London, Rosamund Stacey indulges in a premarital sexual ...

  • The Realms of Gold

    An archaeologist struggles to unearth her own true passions in the “richest, most absorbing novel” by the author of The Dark Flood Rises (Joyce Carol Oates).   Frances Wingate is one of England’s most renowned archaeologists, having recent...

  • The Middle Ground

    A “marvelous” novel about a woman’s psychological battle with the realities of midlife (The New York Times Book Review).   Witty and endearingly neurotic, Kate Armstrong has hit a certain age -- and the crisis that goes along with it. She ...

  • The Ice Age

    Just thirty-eight-years-old, Anthony Keating’s already survived both a divorce and a heart attack. He has left the BBC for the dangerous life of property speculation in the boom-and-bust 1970s, and is brooding on the oil crisis, galloping inflation...

  • The Radiant Way

    Liz Headleand, Esther Breuer, and Alix Bowen have been friends since Cambridge. Twenty-five years later, life has led them all down very different paths. Liz is a successful and well-known psychiatrist with a full social life. Esther, an eccentric bo...



  • A Natural Curiosity

    An “engrossing” novel following three women as they confront the darkness and danger of their world, by the author of The Radiant Way (People).   Sweeping from smart London townhouses to a rundown embassy in the Middle East, from the splendo...

  • The Gates of Ivory

    A woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this “very smart” and suspenseful novel (The New York Times Book Review).   Liz Headleand is one of London’s best-known and most prominent psychiatrists. One day she a...

  • Angus Wilson

    Margaret Drabble, herself much influenced by Angus Wilson's writing, traces his early years as a librarian at the British Library, interrupted by a grim spell in the code-breaking huts at Bletchley Park, and then his meteoric rise as novelist, critic...

  • The Witch of Exmoor

    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: “Part social satire, part thriller, and entirely clever” (Elle).   It is a midsummer’s evening in the English countryside, and the three grown Palmer children are coming to the end of an enjoyable...

  • The Peppered Moth

    The prize-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises offers an “absorbing” portrait of three generations of women -- inspired by her own family (The New York Times Book Review).   In the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town...

  • The Seven Sisters

    An Englishwoman at a crossroads in her life takes an unexpected path in this “teasingly clever new novel” by the author of The Millstone (Publisher Weekly).Candida Wilton -- a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her th...

  • The Red Queen

    On the cusp of a trip to Korea, Barbara Halliwell receives an unexpected package with no return address. Inside she finds a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess that details the mysteries of the Korean court as well as the dramas that left...

  • Jerusalem the Golden

    Clara has broken away from the stifling respectability of her northern home to live her own life in London. Through her close friendship with Celia Denham she enters a world of dazzling educated people and wealthy bohemians. Clara yearns to be part o...

  • The Sea Lady

    This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train...

  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature

    Based on the vastly popular Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble, this indispensable volume offers over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries on individual novels, plays, songs, poems, novelists, poets, playwright...



  • The Garrick Year

    From the Golden PEN Award"winning author: A “well-written, entertaining” dark comedy of a marriage on the rocks in 1960s London (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times).   Emma and David Evans seem to have a perfect life. He’s a handsome...

  • A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

    Margaret Drabble’s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curios...

  • The Pure Gold Baby

    Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful sunny nature. But a...

  • The Dark Flood Rises

    From the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many ways in which we confront aging and living in a time of geopolitical rupture. Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expe...

  • The Gifts of War

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Drabble has published 24 books.

Margaret Drabble does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Gifts of War, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Margaret Drabble, The Waterfall, was published in June 1969.

No. Margaret Drabble does not write books in series.
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