1981, mass market paperback reprint edition (of a title that first appeared in 1955), Perennial Library, NY. 271 pages. Highly praised spy novel about a journalist who investigates an MP who may be tied to secret government projects. Often called the best spy novel of the period.

The Enormous Shadow

Harling, Robert

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Hilarious and touching, this play for six women is set in a beauty parlour in Louisiana. Through four scenes spanning three years the staff and customers engage in small-town gossip but we see a deep strength and purposefulness emerge when Shelby - a diabetic - dies following a kidney transplant operation.

Steel Magnolias

Dramas & Plays

Samuel French Ltd.

Studio Dictionary

Reference

Studio

A full length Comedy/Drama for a cast of 6 women. The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, ("I'm not crazy, I've just been in a bad mood for forty years"); an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a "good ole boy." Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength-and love-which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

Steel Magnolias – Acting Edition

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

An illustrated gallery of interiors (240 color photos) representing emerging (and re-emerging) decorating themes in settings that include a traditional town house in London, a contemporary apartment in Paris, a rural retreat in the Cotswolds, a royal palace in Scandinavia. "Classic" is used in its strictly lexicographical sense: of the first order. No scholarly paraphernalia. Distributed in the US by Rizzoli. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The House and Garden Book of Classic Rooms

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bridges, John

Highton, Leonie

Home Improvement & Design

Vendome Pr

The House and Garden book of romantic rooms

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Salem House

Modern Furniture and Decoration

Galahad

Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill

Hurtwood Press

The Steep Atlantick Stream

The Steep Atlantick Stream: A Memoir of Convoys and Corvettes

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

LYONS PRESS+

Ian Fleming: A Personal Memoir

Forged during the Second World War, the close and abiding friendship of Robert Harling and Ian Fleming, one of the twentieth century’s most iconic authors, would go on to define the lives and literature of both men. But beneath the pair’s charm, charisma and creativity was an altogether darker reality, one which Harling reveals in this memoir.

Arts & Literature

Biteback Publishing

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