The Grass is Singing
Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary...
In Pursuit of the English
In Pursuit of the English real In swift, barbed style, in high, hard, farcical writing that is eruptively funny, Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through...
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "innerspace" life of an amnesiac. Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge...