If you are familiar with the quiet little gems that are the novels of Barbara Pym, you may be surprised by the number and intensity of the writer’s love affairs—all doomed. Paula Byrne brings these ...

THE ADVENTURES OF MISS BARBARA PYM. By Paula Byrne. William Collins. 704 pages. $34.99. Even the most passionate of Barbara Pym fans may be hard-pressed to explain why they find her writing so ...

Pym, the subject of a new biography, "The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym," by Paula Byrne, worked for an anthropological journal — and her characters often act like anthropologists, studying the ...

This fall, my husband and I braved country roads and their harrowing roundabouts to make a literary pilgrimage to the tiny town of Finstock in Oxfordshire, England, to see … what? Barn Cottage, the ...

Paula Byrne’s biography of the novelist Barbara Pym reveals the complicated person behind the vicars and the jumble sales. By Matthew Schneier When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne (William Collins: 2022), 704 pages. In A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym (1990), Hazel Holt, Pym’s longtime friend, recounts that after the ...

Ellie Wood of Clearwood Films is also the producer behind ITV's 'Stonehouse.' By Lily Ford Banijay U.K. has signed a development deal with Ellie Wood, producer of Netflix‘s The Dig and ITV’s ...

1. Perhaps because we live in an era of self-advertisement, it’s such a pleasure to encounter characters like the unassuming, quiet sort created by Barbara Pym. Pym is regarded by some as the ...

Ellie Wood, the producer behind Netflix film The Dig, has struck a development deal with Banijay UK and is working an adaptation of Barbara Pym’s ‘Excellent Women’ novels. Under terms of the agreement ...

Sitting on the porch this afternoon with half a bottle of plonk and a paperback copy of Barbara Pym’s Less Than Angels, I realized that, nearly forty years after first encountering her novels, I love ...

Returning to London after a successful one-off concert performance at RADA, The Mirror Never Lies will come to the Cockpit Theatre for a week of performances this November. Based on Barbara Pym's ...