The Shooting Party

Isabel Colegate

first published 1980 Penguin, 1982 181 pages

A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are a dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale of an era. 'Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry... I have seldom enjo...

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Shooting Party edition · 2010 · Counterpoint Press · 208 pages · 9781582435930
The shooting party edition · 2002 · Counterpoint
The Shooting Party paperback · 1991 · Penguin (Non-Classics) · 20 pages · 9780140147308
The shooting party edition · 1982 · Penguin · 181 pages
The shooting party edition · 1981 · Viking Press · 195 pages
The shooting party edition · 1980 · H. Hamilton · 181 pages

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