Manon Lescaut by Abbé [Antoine Francois] Prévost
Read online – Gutenberg This is a book I would never have picked up if not for the fact that it is on the reading list...
9 June 2013
A town like Alice by Nevil Shute
In post World War II England Jean Paget is tracked down by a solicitor. She is the only surviving member of a client of his, and...
26 May 2013
The crane wife by Patrick Ness
Part of my Once Upon a Time reading. George is an American ex-pat living in England. He has been there for so long that, and is...
27 April 2013
A week in winter by Maeve Binchy
Chicky left her home on the west coast of Ireland and headed off to America after a whirl-wind romance. Full of ideas of everlasting love and...
21 April 2013
The silver dark sea by Susan Fletcher
Life is different when you live on an island. The sea is all important, whether or not you make you living from it. The sea can...
5 April 2013
In the sea there are crocodiles by Fabio Geda
The story of Enaiatollah Akbari, trans. from the Italian by Howard Curtis When Enaiat is around ten his mother takes him from his village in Afganistan...
13 May 2012
Julie of the wolves by Jean Craighead George
Received free from NetGalley Written in 1972 this is the story of Miyax, whose English name is Julie, and her attempt to run away to San...
26 September 2011