Deborah Moggach

First published in 1979, this is bestselling author Deborah Moggach's second novel. __________________ 'Moggach is at the height of her powers' Sunday Times 'She really…

First published in 1978, this is Deborah Moggach's first novel, newly republished by Tinder Press __________________ 'Moggach is at the height of her powers' Sunday…

In one new volume, an irresistible collection of stories from two previous works, SMILE and CHANGING BABIES, with additional stories, previously unpublished in book form.…

'I barked out loud. Not since Freud has sex been more in bed with death. She gets sharper and more mordant with age and about…

'Moggach is at the height of her powers with this book, which moves from a beautifully observed comedy of middle-class life to an immensely moving…

Something to Hide “Nobody in the world knows our secret… that I’ve ruined Bev’s life, and she’s ruined mine.” Petra’s romantic life has always been…

Sometimes a character in an earlier book simply refuses to go away, hanging around long after the party’s over. Buffy, the boozy old actor in…

This book came about because I’d been thinking a lot about growing older, about what is going to happen to us all. The population is…

This is my first novel. I started writing it when I was living in Karachi, in my mid-twenties. Its story is drawn a great deal…

I loved writing this novel. I stole some of its jokes from my partner at the time, the cartoonist Mel Calman, himself the veteran of…

Five years after I returned home from Karachi I wrote a novel that was set there. Maybe it takes that long for experiences to be…

This is a thriller. I’d never written one before – introduce a gun and everything moves into different territory. The idea came to me when…

This novel was also scripted, by me, as a TV drama. In fact I can’t remember which came first, TV or book. Like “To Have…

I like setting up a seemingly happy family and then planting a stick of dynamite in the corner of the room. Light the touch paper…

This is my fifth novel. It came to me quite suddenly, when I was driving towards London and passed a smallholding – a bungalow surrounded…

This is the novel that, as I said, grew out of a short story. In fact, even more deliciously, I later extracted a character from…

This novel was prompted by a newspaper story I read, about a young woman who was charged with fraud. She worked at the British Telecom…

As I write this, the First World War is slipping out of memory and into history. Only five British servicemen are still with us –…

This novel was written in a rush of emotion; it’s really my love-letter to Dutch painting and that lost world of serene and dreamy domestic…