A Time to Keep Silence

7 best books like A Time to Keep Silence (Patrick Leigh Fermor): Olive, Again, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Puck of Pook's Hill, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution, A View of the Harbour

Olive, Again

Author	Elizabeth Strout
ISBN	0812996542

The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses...

Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Author	Frans de Waal
ISBN	0393635066

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Author	Artemis Cooper
ISBN	0719554497

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated...

Puck of Pook's Hill

Author

Rudyard Kipling

I read this because it was available free on Kindle (now I am on a "Kindle"-ing spree).

This book carries with it a childhood memory for me. I used to buy comics from the Higginbothams' bookstall in the railway station (they still have stalls all over railway stations in South India, but carry...

The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea

Author	Randolph Stow
ISBN	0140028358

Do not think less of anyone for hating this if they had to read it in high school. I had to as well and I despised this book. I actually grew up in Geraldton in the 70s and 80s and it seemed as though not much had changed since the 40s, excpept mabe for the war. Hated hated hated it. Trying to explain to some first...

A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution

Author	Theodore Draper
ISBN	0679776427

I decided to read this book after listening to an old interview with the late Christopher Hitchens in which he recommended Mr Draper's book as a excellent read for those who wished to better understand the germinal factors that led up to and caused the American Revolution to occur how and when it did.

I...

A View of the Harbour

Author	Elizabeth Taylor
ISBN	1844083225

In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates...