Bhowani Junction
10 best books like Bhowani Junction (John Masters): Night at the Vulcan, A Song for Summer, A Wreath of Roses, Running the Amazon, The Groves of Academe, Indian Summer, An Angel At My Table, Manhattan '45, Sara Dane, Maigret et la jeune morte
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0312966687 |
A London actor was dying for a star billing...
From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead-there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening...
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| ISBN | 0142408662 |
Ellen never expected the Hallendorf school to be quite so unusual. Her life back in England with her suffragette mother and liberated aunts certainly couldn't be called normal, but buried deep in the beautiful Austrian countryside, Ellen discovers an eccentric world occupied by wild children and...
| Author | Elizabeth Taylor |
| ISBN | 1853816841 |
Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secretary,...
The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where the Amazon runs gently into the Atlantic. Joe Kane's...
| Author | Mary McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0156027879 |
Henry Mulcahy, a literature instructor at progressive Jocelyn College, is informed that his appointment will not be continued. Convinced he is disliked by the president of Jocelyn because of his abilities as a teacher and his independence of mass opinion, Mulcahy believes he is being made the victim...
| Author | William Dean Howells |
| ISBN | 1590171098 |
William Dean Howells's Indian Summer tells of a season in the life of Theodore Colville. Colville, just turned forty, has spent years as a successful midwestern newspaper publisher. Now he sells his business and heads for Italy, where as a young man he had dreamed of a career as an architect and fallen...
| Author | Janet Frame |
| ISBN | 1844084574 |
I’m amazed by how much Janet Frame packs into her books: most people with lives this eventful would have let the story sprawl to nearly 400 pages, but here in fewer than 200 she captures the years when she was roughly aged 18 to 31 – eight of which were spent off and on in mental hospitals. Frame travelled...
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 0801859573 |
In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel...
Here is an unforgettable woman. A woman as strong and as beautiful as the raw new country she helps to carve from the wilderness. A woman of fierce pride, yet gently devoted to her children, and possessed with an undying vision about the future of her land, Sara Dane epitomizes the heart of her untamed country...
Maigret et la jeune morte
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 2253142409 |
Maigret bâilla, poussa les papiers vers le bout du bureau. – Signez ça, les enfants, et vous pourrez aller vous coucher. Les « enfants » étaient probablement les trois gaillards les plus durs à cuire qui fussent passés par la P. J. depuis un an. L’un d’eux, celui qu’on appelait Dédé,...
