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1	Excellent Women more books like this by Barbara Pym The heroines of "Excellent Women" and "A Glass of Blessings" complement each other and both books have ecclesiastical settings and preoccupations. Barbara Pym is the author of "Some Tame Gazelle", "Jane and Prudence" and "Less than Angels". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Jane and Prudence more books like this by Barbara Pym Middle-aged Jane is the well-intentioned but far from perfect clergyman's wife and mother. Prudence, who at 29 is teetering at the edge of spinsterhood, is an attractive, educated working girl. The two best friends share memories of their carefree days at Oxford, leisurely lunches, and gossip, but their ultimate goal is to find a suitable mate for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.87! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Few Green Leaves more books like this by Barbara Pym Published in the last year of Barbara Pym's life, 'A Few Green Leaves' combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.60! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Glass of Blessings more books like this by Barbara Pym Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thirty to six at the Ministry. Wilmet's interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-Catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the company of three priests and Piers Longridge. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Quartet in Autumn more books like this by Barbara Pym Brought together by their shared office life, faded Letty, small, wiry Norman, eccentric Marcia and devout Edwin, are an unlikely group of friends, but nevertheless find themselves drawn to discuss their different dreams and plans for the future. This book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.37! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Some Tame Gazelle more books like this by Barbara Pym Barbara Pym is a master at capturing the subtle mayhem that takes place in the apparent quiet of the English countryside. "Some Tame Gazelle", first published in Britain nearly 50 years ago, was the first of Pym's nine novels, all being reprinted by Mayer Bell. In the fictional village of "Some Tame Gazelle", spinsters, clerics, and eccentrics are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.91! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sweet Dove Died more books like this by Barbara Pym A chance encounter over a Victorian flower book brings together Humphrey, an antiques dealer, his nephew James, and Leonora. Although she is considerably older, Leonora develops a fondness for James. She also knows that Humphrey has feelings for her. Leonora is determined to keep James under her spell until she realises that she has to contend ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.27! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Crampton Hodnet more books like this by Barbara Pym This is a wonderfully accomplished farce with the joke of using her own name in the title (Barbara Mary Crampton Pym). From that point she sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing -- in recognisingly 'pym' fashion -- on the unsuitable romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty young girl, both of whom live in the same rooming house, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.85! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Less Than Angels more books like this by Barbara Pym Handsome anthropologist, Tom Mallow, runs into trouble when he tries to choose between the soft-hearted Catherine Oliphant and a more recent conquest, Deidre Swan. The author was chosen in 1977 as one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century by Phillip Larkin and Lord David Cecil. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.21! \| first editions \| SVS
10	An Unsuitable Attachment more books like this by Barbara Pym When Barbara Pym died in January 1980, this unpublished novel was found among her papers - written in 1963, at a time when her work was out of fashion. The publication after nineteen years of An Unsuitable Attachment therefore became an important literary event and a source of joy for her many fans. Set in St Basil's, an undistinguished North ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	No fond return of love more books like this by Barbara Pym Pym introduces Dulcie Mainwaring, one of those seemingly selfless women who always help others and never look out for themselves, especially in matters of love. When Dulcie's young niece becomes the object of absentminded Professor Aylwin Forbes's amorous designs, Dulcie whisks away her friend Viola -- who has her own designs on the professor -- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Very Private Eye more books like this by Barbara Pym see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.99! \| first editions
13	An Academic Question more books like this by Barbara Pym This satirical novel about a provincial university--seen through the eyes of Caro Grimstone, the young wife of a lecturer--was written in the early 1970's. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.32! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Civil to Strangers and Other Writings more books like this by Barbara Pym This volume includes one complete novel, "Civil to Strangers", and sections of three others which have been edited by Hazel Holt to form self-standing novellas that rank with the best of Barbara Pym's other work. The book also includes four short stories and an autobiographical essay. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $93.61! \| first editions
15	Unsuitable Attachments more books like this by Barbara Pym This elegantly satirical novel, set in a London parish in the 1960's, is about the vicar--aloof, oblivious Mark; Sophia, his wife; her cat, Faustina; a young woman named Penelope who is looking for love; and a wide variety of eccentric parishioners. This novel, which Pym wrote in 1963, was her sixth; it was rejected by her publisher because he ... see all copies from $3.40! first editions
16	Civil to Strangers more books like this by Barbara Pym By the same author as "Quartet in Autumn", this volume contains one complete novel, sections of three others, the best of her short stories and an autobiographical essay. The title novel describes the disruption caused in a small Shropshire town when a mysterious Hungarian arrives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $62.07! \| first editions \| SVS
17	A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters more books like this by Barbara Pym see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18	A very private eye : the diaries, letters and notebooks of Barbara Pym more books like this by Barbara Pym, Hazel Holt, Hilary Pym see all copies from $3.24! new only from $7.50! \| first editions
19	Excellent women ; Jane and Prudence ; An unsuitable attachment more books like this by Barbara Pym see all copies from $3.82!
20	A Glass of Blessing more books like this by Barbara Pym Wilmet, a woman in her 30s with a distant and unresponsive husband, has led a life of idleness and comfort. Seeking new interests, she becomes involved in the affairs of St. Luke's, the Anglo-Catholic church in her neighborhood. She then either participates in or observes a series of romantic entanglements that enrich not only her relationship ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21	The Barbara Pym Cookbook more books like this by Hilary Pym, Honor Wyatt, Barbara Pym This elegantly packaged "armchair cookbook" is a delicious tribute to BarbaraPym that will delight aficionados, and allow readers who are familiar with her novels to recall them with pleasure. Contains 70 recipes. see all copies from $9.99! first editions
22	A Few Green Leaves / Barbara Pym. more books like this by Barbara Pym see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
23	a la Pym: The Barbara Pym Cookery Book by Hilary Pym, Barbara Pym, Frankie Pollak (Illustrator) Compiled by her sister, this is a collection of recipes from Barbara Pym's kitchen notebooks, together with food-related extracts from her novels. see all copies from $50.84! signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Barbara Pym omnibus. more books like this by Barbara Pym Barbara Pym's sense of English social life is captured in these three novels. In "Some Tame Gazelle", for instance, the undercurrents of a vicarage garden party are no less important than an unexpected proposal of marriage. see all copies from $2.95!
25	Adam Et Cassandra by Barbara Pym see all copies from $42.22! new only from $42.22!

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