Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
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By the same author
NOVELS
The Grass Is Singing
The Golden Notebook
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
The Summer Before the Dark
The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Diaries of Jane Somers:
Diary of a Good Neighbour
If the Old Could…
The Good Terrorist
The Fifth Child
Love, Again
Mara and Dann
“Canopus in Argos: Archives” series
Re: Colonized Planet 5, Shikasta
The Marriages Between Zones
Three, Four and Five
The Sirian Experiments
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
“Children of Violence” novel-series
Martha Quest
A Proper Marriage
A Ripple from the Storm
Landlocked
The Four-Gated City
SHORT STORIES
African Stories
Volume I: This Was the Old Chief’s Country
Volume II: The Sun Between Their Feet
Stories:
Volume I: To Room Nineteen
Volume II: The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories
The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches (U.S.), London Observed (U.K.)
OPERA
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Music by Philip Glass)
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (Music by Philip Glass)
NON-FICTION
In Pursuit of the English
Particularly Cats
Going Home
A Small Personal Voice
Prisons We Chose to Live Inside
The Wind Blows Away Our Words
African Laughter
Under My Skin
Walking in the Shade
The Doris Lessing Reader
POETRY
Fourteen Poems
DRAMA
Each His Own Wilderness
Play with a Tiger
The Singing Door
Copyright
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