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John Bayley, academic, literary critic and author, who married st Iris Murdoch in 1956, and whose second wife and family friend, Audi Villers, survives him, has died in Lanzarote on 12 January 2015.

August 2015 The BBC is broadcasting several items on Iris Murdoch in recognition of the renewed interest in the author's work. These include a short play by Robin Brooks, a discussion on Woman's Hour with Dr. Anne Rowe which includes the dramatisation in five episodes of A Severed Head and the serialisation of the Booker prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea on Sunday afternoons. September 2016. The new Iris Murdoch Research centre at Chichester University is to be launched with a Symposium at the University on 10 October

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Iris Murdoch. A Writer at War **3rd impression**
code: FE150832
Iris Murdoch. A Writer at War **3rd impression**
£20.00

Conradi, Peter

Iris Murdoch.  A Writer at War.  Letters & Diaries 1938-46

London, Short Books, 2009

Third impression (earlier printings were withdrawn owing to substantial errors in editing and footnotes).  Fine in fine dust jacket.  Press cutting review by Frances Wilson loosely laid in.
With Love and Rage. A Friendship with Iris Murdoch **first edition**
code: FE1372
With Love and Rage. A Friendship with Iris Murdoch **first edition**
£15.00

Morgan, David

With Love and Rage.  A Friendship with Iris Murdoch

Kingston University, 2010

Paperback original (no hardback edition). Fine in illustrated laminated cover.

The memoir is described as both David Morgan's final farewell to Iris Murdoch and his loving preservation of his memory of her.  They met when he is was studying at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s.

See above for Author's Synopsis.

 
A Word Child **first edition**
code: FE150829
A Word Child **first edition**
£25.00

Murdoch, Iris

A Word Child

London, Chatto & Windus, 1975

First edition.  Very Good+ in bright orange boards with gilt titles in Near Fine protected dust jacket.
The Italian Girl **First Edition**
code: FE150830
The Italian Girl **First Edition**
£18.00

Murdoch, Iris

The Italian Girl

London, Chatto & Windus, 1963

Ownership inscription but otherwise VG book in Near VG dust jacket (slight loss at head of spine).
Jacksons Dilemma **Uncorrected proof**
code: FE150831
Jackson's Dilemma **Uncorrected proof**
£25.00

Murdoch, Iris

Jackson's Dilemma

London, Chatto & Windus, 1995

Fine in printed card wraps.  Also included is ill-fitting dust jacket.

Iris Murdoch's final novel.

 
A Fairly Honourable Defeat **first edition**
code: FE1606
A Fairly Honourable Defeat **first edition**
£25.00

Murdoch, Iris

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

London, C & W, 1970

First Edition.  Slight trace of bookplate removed from front paste-down, otherwise a Fine bright copy in a Fine dustjacket.  No inscriptions, no price-clipping
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child **first edition**
code: FE161102
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child **first edition**
£32.00

Rowling, J K, based on a story by; Tiffany, John & Thorne, Jack

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child

London, Little Brown, 2016.  First edition, first printing.

 Fine in Fine protected dust jacket.  Special Rehearsal Script for the play launched in the West End in July 2016.  It is the eighth Harry Potter story and the first to be launched officially on stage.
The Philosophers Pupil **first edition**
code: FE1623
The Philosopher's Pupil **first edition**
£10.00

Murdoch, Iris

The Philosopher's Pupil

London, C & W, 1983

First impression.  Very Good+ (slight flecking on to page block and small ink mark) in Very Near Fine dustjacket.
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