Tag: General
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Enough
by Dawn French Etta is sixty-eight years old. Happy, healthy and an active participant in her world, she’s gathered her family together for an unforgettable weekend.Tick.At 5am that Saturday morning, Etta wakes her daughter, her granddaughter, her son and her daughter-in-law up to lead everyone down to the beach. To ‘Etta’s Hollow’, where a roaring…
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Whistler
by Ann Patchett When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn’t expect it to be Eddie – her former stepfather. Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn’t seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful event…
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A Very Dangerous Pursuit
by Ben Miller It began in the manner of all the very best adventures: in a coffee house. When one Richard Hannay – intrepid, inquisitive, and on the hunt for intrigue – encounters an old acquaintance in Constantinople, he has an inkling that something thrilling is afoot. Charged with an item of great mystery and import – a washbag, no…
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The Lost Chateau
by Dinah Jeffries A secret lies behind every door… The Dordogne, 1936 Amid tangled gardens and crumbling walls, Chateau Rousseau guards its secrets well. Pushing open its faded door, Thirza Caruthers arrives to care for her great-aunt. She’s made a promise – unaware of what awaits. As the skies darken above Europe, the chateau begins…
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh’s beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula Byrne The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh’s novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder’s infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first…
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Lost Lambs
by Madeleine Cash Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper,…
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Theo Of Golden
by Allen Levi One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from… His name is Theo and he’s arrived there by chance – or has he? He visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits by a local…
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The Holiday Escape
by Heidi Swain Ally and her dad, Geoff, run the family business, a creative retreat, from their home Hollyhock Cottage in picturesque Kittiwake Cove. They give their guests their dream break, but Ally hankers after glamourous city living, fancy restaurants and art galleries. Ally’s survival strategy is to escape out of season, take a break…
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Howards End
by E.M.Forster ‘The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can’ ‘Only connect.’ is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century:…
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Common Decency
by Tom Allen It may be quiet in the suburbs, but it’s far from peaceful . . . Oak Drive can be found nestled tidily in an unassuming English town. Its uniform front gardens overlook a midsized common which the street’s residents survey with quiet, some might say smug, pride. This is the sort of…