Posts Tagged ‘british’
Summer Before the War TP
New York Times – bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. It’s the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to…
Read MoreCall the Midwife
Reflects on the experiences of Jennifer Worth as a midwife in London’s postwar East End, including the nuns from whom she learned her craft and the interesting and challenging births she aided during her career.
Read MorePoldark 7 Angry Tide
The Angry Tide is the seventh novel in Winston Graham’s sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark.Cornwall, towards the end of the 18th century. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliament – his time divided between London and Cornwall, his heart divided about his wife, Demelza. His old feud with George Warleggan…
Read MoreMurder on the Orient Express
“The murderer is with us–on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be…
Read MoreCAREER OF EVIL
Career of Evil is the third in the highly acclaimed series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed.…
Read MoreMy Not So Perfect Life
“When Katie Brenner is fired from her dream job in advertising in London, she’s desperate to get away from her mad boss Demeter, and her crush, Alex, who she thought shared her feelings of adoration but didn’t. Seeking refuge, she goes home to her father’s farm in Somerset to help make her stepmother’s dream of…
Read MoreHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called…
Read MorePoldark 1 Ross Poldark
A reissue of the first book in the legendary Poldark series, to tie in with the new BBC seriesTired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and the girl…
Read MoreCromwell
A recreation of the life and complex character of Oliver Cromwell. Antonia Fraser seeks to free Cromwell from the distortions of myth and Royalist propaganda. Of Cromwell’s fitness for high office, both military and civil, this text leaves no doubt.
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