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1	The Sea, the Sea more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Charles, a retired theatre director, retires to a small village where he encounters Hartley, the woman he loved years ago when they were both children, and who is now happily married to a man Charles despises. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Black Prince more books like this by Murdoch add to wishlist In Murdoch's 15th novel, an aging novelist who has led a loveless life retires even further from the real world to write his magnum opus. Instead, he falls obsessively in love with a very young woman. The portrait of the artist is not only a gripping story of human relationships, but a profound consideration of love, death, and art. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Under the Net more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man, who makes a living out of translation work and sponging off his friends. A meeting with Anna, and old flame, leads him ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	A Fairly Honourable Defeat more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Book and the Brotherhood more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist In the struggle between good and evil--a constant in Murdoch's novels--the only allies on the side of the good, in a generally hostile world, are art, magic, and religion. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Sovereignty of Good more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.08! \| first editions
7	Ten Little Mummies more books like this by Philip Yates, G Brian Karas (Illustrator) add to wishlist Ten adorable mummies star in this refreshingly funny counting book, where the counting goes backwards down to one little mummy. Full color. (Available) see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
8	The bell more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist This title is with an introduction by A. S. Byatt. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The philosopher's pupil more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. And there he exerts an almost magical influence, especially over George McCaffrey, his old pupil. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Bruno's Dream more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist The complex plot involves the impact of a beautiful, virginal young woman on a handful of troubled characters, including Bruno, the aging enchanter who ultimately controls the lives of his friends. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £22.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Good Apprentice more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Edward Bartram's friend Mark Wilsden dies after Edward gives him a hallucinogenic drug, and Edward seeks redemption for his guilt and self-loathing, finally finding peace when, through the efforts of his nunlike half-sisters, he is reconciled with his long-estranged father, who is able to grant him the forgiveness he seeks. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist This guide to morals is the culmination of the author's lifetime of work in philosophy. The author is concerned with the humanistic part of the history of philosophy, Plato to structuralism, and how it bears on our thoughts and feelings about our lives, our moral lives. She shows how our conception of morality is bound up with and in our worlds, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.29! \| first editions
13 view cover	A Severed Head more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Nice and the Good more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist A novel originally published in 1968, revolving around a happily married couple and telling of a violent death, blackmail, suspected espionage, Black Arts, stress and terror, over which love conquers all. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Flight from the Enchanter more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Annette runs away from finishing school to enter the school of life. As a result she meets a diverse group of characters, all of whom are trying to break free from their own particular obsessions. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Green Knight more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist This novel centres on the effect "the green knight" - an angelic figure, a man thought to have been murdered but who is returned to life - has on the lives of three sisters, their family and friends. see all copies from £3.09! new only from £7.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Unicorn more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist When Marion Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a coast, she finds herself confronted with weird mysteries. Some crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a spell, whose magic also touches the neighbouring house of Riders, inhabited by a recluse. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.72! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Time of the Angels more books like this by Murdoch add to wishlist Carel is rector of a non-existent City church (it was destroyed in the war). In the rectory live his daughter, Muriel, his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth, and their West Indian servant, Patti. Here too are Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, co-guardian with him of Elizabeth, tires to make contact ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
19 view cover	Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Iris Murdoch's 24th novel, published in her 71st year, tells of Alfred Ludens' long search for Professor Marcus Vallar, convinced he possesses a secret fundamental to the human condition. But is Vallar a genius, a madman or a saint? What Ludens discovers is certainly not what he expects. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Sacred & Profane Love Machine more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be his only consolations after all. The neighbour, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Black Prince and Other Stories more books like this by Shirley Ann Grau add to wishlist A collection of nine stories. The author was the winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the novel "The Keepers of the House". see all copies from £4.95! new only from £9.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Nuns and Soldiers more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this story? see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	A Word Child more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Twenty years ago, Hilary Burde committed an act that advanced his own career but did irreparable damage to another man. Now he has fallen in love with that man's wife. Like all of Murdoch's novels, A WORD CHILD contains not only a series of tragicomic, almost farcical sexual escapades involving a cast of eccentrics, but a profound exploration of ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Italian Girl more books like this by Murdoch add to wishlist A brief novel full of melodramatic sexual alliances, in which the hero falls in love with his dead mother's housekeeper. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Unofficial Rose more books like this by Murdoch add to wishlist This is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them. Impelled by affection, lust, lost scruple, illusion and disillusion, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.69! \| signed copies \| first editions

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