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Fay Weldon

(1931 - )

About Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon was born and raised in New Zealand. Her novels and short stories best-sell around the world and wherever they go are awarded great critical acclaim. Her film and TV work wins enthusiastic viewers by the million, worldwide.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Chalcot Crescent

Novels

The Fat Woman's Joke (1968)
     aka ... And the Wife Ran Away
Down Among the Women (1971)
Female Friends (1974)
Little Sisters (1975)
     aka Words of Advice
Remember Me (1976)
Praxis (1978)
Puffball (1980)
The President's Child (1982)
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
The Shrapnel Academy (1986)
The Heart of the Country (1987)
The Hearts and Lives of Men (1987)
Leader of the Band (1988)
The Cloning of Joanna May (1989)
Darcy's Utopia (1990)
Life Force (1992)
Growing Rich (1992)
Affliction (1992)
     aka Trouble
Question of Timing (1992)
Splitting (1995)
Worst Fears (1996)
Big Women (1997)
     aka Big Girls Don't Cry
Rhode Island Blues (2000)
The Bulgari Connection (2001)
Mantrapped (2004)
She May Not Leave (2005)
The Spa Decameron (2007)
The Stepmother's Diary (2008)
The Spa (2009)
Chalcot Crescent (2009)

Collections

Chapbooks

The Rules of Life (1987)
Wolf the Mechanical Dog (1988)
Party Puddle (1989)
The Roots of Violence (1989)

Non fiction

Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen (1984) (see Jane Austen)
Rebecca West (1985)
Sacred Cows (1989)
Godless in Eden (1999)
Auto Da Fay: A Memoir (2002)
What Makes Women Happy (2006)

Anthologies containing stories by Fay Weldon

The 4th Bumper Book of Ghost Stories (1980)
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)
Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)

Short stories

	Angel, All Innocence (1977)
	Spirit of the House (1980)
	Watching Me, Watching You (1981)
	Down the Clinical Disco (1985)
	A Good Sound Marriage (1991)

Awards

	The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1979) : Praxis
	Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (1996) : Worst Fears

Fay Weldon recommends

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) (Bladerunner, book 1) Philip K Dick "My literary hero."	The Survivors (1982) Elaine Feinstein "Elaine Feinstein writes with the grace of a born poet and the energy of a natural novelist."	Borderline (1985) Janette Turner Hospital "Janette Turner Hospital goes from strength to strength."
Tongues of Flame (1985) Tim Parks "Religion, sex and mania bursting hoof-footed from surburban doors."	Serenissima (1987) Erica Jong "A stirring book of fable and fantasy... outrageously readable. "	Witchbroom (1992) Lawrence Scott "A powerful writer."
Casting Off (1995) Libby Purves "Ms Purves has the gift of tongues - a born novelist."	Justine (1996) Alice Thompson "A lot of flagellation and a matching literary-exquisite style."	Pandora's Box (1998) Alice Thompson "A highwire act of a novel. Seductive and mysterious, and like no other."
Bubbles Unbound (2001) (Bubbles Yablonsky, book 1) Sarah Strohmeyer "A wonderfully energising and skilful page-turner of a book."	The Saint Who Loved Me (2002) Mimi Thebo "I believe in St. Peter, Mimi Thebo and in the excellence of this novel."	Peyton Amberg (2003) Tama Janowitz "It is one of the funniest books I have read, and the bleakest... raw, rude, upsetting and immensely invigorating. "
The Memory Stones (2003) Kate O'Riordan "She has the capacity to tell it how it is, not how we think it ought to be, and to tell it passionately."	Things to Do Indoors (2003) Sheena Joughin "She writes like an angel and thinks like the devil. Joughin is a major discovery."	Mobius Dick (2004) Andrew Crumey "I loved it!"
The Glorious Flight of Perdita Tree (2005) Olivia Fane "This book is a delight... I loved it."	The Jigsaw Maker (2007) Adrienne Dines "The pieces fit together very well indeed."

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