Rumer Godden

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NOVELS
2007 is Rumer Godden's Centenary Year and please watch the press for new editions of the books.
Chinese Puzzle
The Lady and the Unicorn
Black Narcissus*
Breakfast with the Nikolides*
Rungli-Rungliot (Thus Far, and No Farther)
Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time
The River*
A Candle for St. Jude
A Breath of Air
Kingfishers Catch Fire*
An Episode of Sparrows
Mooltiki: Stories and Poems from India
The Greengage Summer*
China Court
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Swans and Turtles (short stories)
In This House of Brede
The Peacock Spring
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
The Dark Horse
Thursday's Children
Pippa Passes
Coromandel Sea Change
Cromartie versus the God Shiva
* denotes books which are currently in print, published by Pan MacMillan, copies of which are available from Amazon and major book sellers.
 
DVDs
The River (1951) ... aka Fleuve, Le
Released by The Criterion Collection, The River also contains the biographical documentary of Rumer Godden made by the BBC for Bookmark and filmed in India with her daughter Jane. The River was directed by Jean Renoir and is being shown this year at the Cannes Film Festival in the Classics Events.
Black Narcissus (1947)
Also from The Criterion Collection, a restored edition of the classic Black Narcissus, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring Deborah Kerr.

Both DVD releases are available from Amazon.

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