Labour Party

Two months after her mother's death, Bellerby's husband gave up his academic post and retired to live in a village near Cambridge. He joined the Oxford Group (later known as Moral Rearmament ), became a...

The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet...

This time the male protagonist is Sir Anthony Nugent, Governor of the Punjab, and whereas Bell's first heroine came from a leisured life on family money, the new one has been playing a public...

Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales,NB was passionately involved in the post-war election of 26 July 1945, which returned the Labour Party with a landslide majority...

The narrator of her novel Afternoon of a Good Woman, 1976, is also a magistrate. NB wrote, I was a political appointment, in the sense that the local Labour Party , asked to put...

NB calls her central character, Elizabeth Jourdelay, submerged but battling. Elizabeth deceives her husband, not because she has a lover, but because she is attending a Labour Party meeting. Of the novel's three strands...

This is in part a memoir about personal grief. She juxtaposes the material details of loss (the watch still going, the unnaturally tidy desk), with the intimacy of memory, the abandoned plans for the future...