Lessing, Doris 1919 -

Professor Charles Watkins steps out of time into a type of madness where he can recall nothing except the feeling of urgency and doctor's cannot agree on what method to use to bring the educator back into the here and now.

Mary Turner, the bored and frustrated wife of an unsuccessful farmer in white-ruled South Africa, sets a course for disaster when she becomes attracted to Moses, a virile African servant.

The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the pieces are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity, its transitoriness, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to the streets.

As she falls in love with an American writer and finds herself facing insanity, Anna attempts to weave the diverse experiences of her life into one story.

A futuristic novel placing two young children in a fight for their livelyhood. Mara and Dann are abducted from their home and brought up as outsiders to a village of rock people in a barren countryside. They eventually a migration journey north to a land where things are supposed to be better. Are they?.