The Nice and the Good
by Iris Murdoch | 
An Unofficial Rose
by Iris Murdoch | 
An Accidental Man
by Iris Murdoch | 
Jackson's Dilemma
by Iris Murdoch | 
A Severed Head
by Iris Murdoch | 
Under the Net
by Iris Murdoch | 
Cakes and Ale
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell | 
The Black Prince
by Iris Murdoch | 
Coming Up for Air
by George Orwell | 
The Old Wives' Tale
by Arnold Bennett | 
Crome Yellow
by Aldous Huxley | 
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch | 
Waterland
by Graham Swift | 
A Maggot
by John Fowles | 
The Go-Between
by L. P. Hartley | 
The Longest Journey
by E. M. Forster | 
Black Dogs
by Ian McEwan | 
The Virgin in the Garden
by A. S. Byatt | 
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck |
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean...Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil, and the terrible accidents of human frailty.