Last year, when I took part in the Cheltenham literary festival’s annual Booker prize event – a classy balloon debate to determine who might have won the prize in the years before its invention – Murdoch’s The Bell(1958), championed by Madeleine Thien, only narrowly lost out to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

See conditions and procedure on our Refunds page.D o Iris Murdoch’s novels still matter to people? Or, after the high-water mark of her Booker-winning 1978 novel, The Sea, The Sea, and a late period of longer, more philosophically abstruse books, did her work collapse into her biography – the jumble of love affairs, absurdly messy kitchens and Alzheimer’s disease that were dramatised by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in the 2001 film of her life? And, once the attention paid to her life had abated, had contemporary fiction simply moved on?Ī set of reissues to mark her centenary this week suggest that her 26 novels still resonate with novelists such as Sarah Perry, Daisy Johnson and Garth Greenwell, who have written new introductions to the works.If there are any problems with your order please email us. See our Shipping FAQs for further details on shipping methods, costs and delivery times.Instore Pickup available - please note this can sometimes take a week or two.We aim to ship your order within 1 business day.We charge a flat $10 per order shipping rate to most states ($20 per order to WA and NT).Please get in touch if you'd like more information about a particular book. There may be an inscription at the front. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. We sell some Secondhand Books - if a book is secondhand, this is clearly noted in the product Description.If you are purchasing a book as a gift, ask us and we can give you more information. Some books may be Remainder Marked (this is a small texta mark on the base of the book).To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH- Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Charming, indolent Dora arrives in their midst, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface. But beneath the gentle daily routines of this community run currents of supressed desire, religious yearning and a legend of disastrous love. 'In this holy community she would play the witch.' Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls, a utopia for those who can neither live in the world, nor out of it. A novel that offers uplifting lessons in love - now republished as part of the Vintage Classics Murdoch Series - six gorgeous editions of her best, funniest and most subversive novels published to mark her centenary.

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