Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

6 best books like Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 (Virginia Nicholson): The Star of Kazan, A Vintage Affair, Madensky Square, The House at the End of Hope Street, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night

The Star of Kazan

Author	Eva Ibbotson
ISBN	0142405825

Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants' quarters, surrounded with friends, including the elderly woman next door who regales...

A Vintage Affair

Author	Isabel Wolff
ISBN	0007245823

Enjoyable! I wish there were pictures of the clothes.

FYI, this is light on the romance side but heavy on the story, which I think was a good thing in this case. (But if you're looking for chick lit heavy on the sexy side this is not it.) I liked the story and was (frankly) glad she wrote it that way...(I...

Madensky Square

Author	Eva Ibbotson
ISBN	0099226014

Susanna Weber is renowned for producing the most elegant, exquisite couture in Vienna. As all of fashionable society passes through her fitting room, Susanna touches numerous lives as matchmaker, comforter, confidante...and passionate lover.

From the improverished yet proud Countess...

The House at the End of Hope Street

Author

Menna van Praag

Filled with a colorful and unforgettable cast of literary figures, The House at the End of Hope Street is a charming, whimsical novel of hope and feminine wisdom.

Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself...

Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death

Author	James Runcie
ISBN	1632862891

It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II. Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the color of hazelnuts, and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clerical detective....

Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night

Author	James Runcie
ISBN	1608199517

The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures in late 1950's Cambridge. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador Dickens, and working in tandem with the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called on to investigate...