China Court: The Hours of a Country House

7 best books like China Court: The Hours of a Country House (Rumer Godden): Miss Buncle's Book, Wild Strawberries, A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, Fire Time, Two Under the Indian Sun, Jane and Prudence

Miss Buncle's Book

Author	D.E. Stevenson
ISBN	0708908349

Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from fellow residents of her quaint English village, writing a revealing novel that features the townsfolk as characters. The smashing bestseller is published...

Wild Strawberries

Author	Angela Thirkell
ISBN	1559213248

Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of Rushwater House. Lady Emily reigns behind a self-generated thicket of confusion and turmoil. There is no event so settled that Lady Emily cannot throw it into chaos at the last moment. Mr Leslie has been...

A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road

Author	Christopher Aslan Alexander
ISBN	1848311257

"Most travelogues chart a journey, but in this case it is the author's decision to stay put that lifts his book out of the ordinary."--"Lonely Planet Magazine"Accompanied by a large parrot, a ginger cat, and his adoptive Uzbek family, Christopher Aslan Alexander recounts the sheer magic of Uzbek culture...

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Author	Laura Cumming
ISBN	1501198718

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

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Fire Time

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0345286928

This is the second (Del Rey) Ballantine printing.
Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet

The planet Ishtar has three suns: Bel, the "real" sun, the Life Giver. Ea, the Companion who warms the Ishtaran summers. Anu, the Demon Star. Mostly Anu is so far away that it is just a light in the Ishtaran sky....

Two Under the Indian Sun

Author	Jon Godden
ISBN	0333058267

In November 1914 two small sisters, Jon and Rumer Godden, returned to India. They had spent a year in London being "brought up" by austere aunts, but now the zeppelins were expected, and so they were summoned back to their home in East Bengal. Jon was only seven and a half and Rumer six.

"Two Under...

Jane and Prudence

Author	Barbara Pym
ISBN	1559212268

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them are aware of it. They couldn't be more different: Jane is a rather incompetent vicar's wife, who always looks as if she is about to feed the chickens, while Prudence, a pristine hothouse...