It is 1905, and Bessie is a small child living in a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the way of life her ancestors have never eve

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off • An article about Margaret Drabble's early novel Jerusalem the Golden referred to the heroine, Clara, coming across a Gabriel in the pages of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Gabriel Oak app

Armed with intelligence, a fine pair of breasts and aspirations far beyond anything her spartan upbringing might have led her to expect, Clara Maugham is in her final year at university in London, waiting for her life to begin. This is the story of a poo

Amazon has launched the Kin... Margaret Drabble is the win... The titles are available individually, and there is also a two-book bundle of Flashman and Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman is based on the schoo

Margaret Drabble is the winner of the 2011 Golden PEN Award. The award is given each year by English PEN to a writer whose body of work has had a profound impact on readers and who is held "in high regard" by the literary community. A golden pen and ch