Don't Wake Me at Doyles: The remarkable memoir of an ordinary Irish woman and her extraordinary life
10 best books like Don't Wake Me at Doyles: The remarkable memoir of an ordinary Irish woman and her extraordinary life (Maura Murphy): Daughter of Fortune, The Red Queen, Crossing to Safety, Small Island, The Long Song, Legally Blonde, The Last English King, The Mistaken Wife, Auschwitz: A History, Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help
| Author | Isabel Allende |
| ISBN | 0061120251 |
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold...
| Author | Philippa Gregory |
| ISBN | 1416563725 |
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins' War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses.
The Red Queen...
Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives,...
| Author | Andrea Levy |
| ISBN | 0312424671 |
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie,...
| Author | Andrea Levy |
| ISBN | 0374192170 |
You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and...
| Author | Amanda Brown |
| ISBN | 0751534552 |
The hilarious novel that inspired the blockbuster movie--including what's next for Elle Woods!
Elle Woods, California University senior, seems to have it all. President of Delta Gamma sorority, she's aced her major--sociopolitical jewellery design--and is on the verge of becoming...
| Author | Julian Rathbone |
| ISBN | 0312242131 |
On September 27, 1066, Duke William of Normandy sailed for England with hundreds of ships and over 8,000 men. King Harold of England, weakened by a ferocious Viking invasion from the north, could muster little defense. At the Battle of Hastings of October 14, he was outflanked, quickly defeated, and...
| Author | Rose Melikan |
| ISBN | 1847442870 |
It is the autumn of 1797. The war between the British and the French is being fought not just openly but also in secret by a network of spies. Reluctant heiress Mary Finch is no stranger to adventure, but even she hesitates before accepting this assignment: to travel secretly to Paris and disrupt vital...
| Author | Sybille Steinbacher |
| ISBN | 0060825820 |
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz, a name that has become synonymous with evil. Here the utopian twentieth-century dream of employing science and technology to improve and protect human life was inverted from the latter part of the 1930s through the end of the Second World War, as...
Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help
From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination.
Jessie is nine years old and looks like the perfect little girl,...
Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe’s largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield. From miraculous pregnancies to dirty protests, and from violent...
| Author | Fern Britton |
| ISBN | 0008225214 |
She arrived in the village on the spring tide and hoped to be at the heart of it, knowing its secrets and weathering its storms.
It was to be a new beginning…
It’s springtime in the Cornish village of Pendruggan and as the community comes together to say a fond farewell to parish vicar,...
| Author | Katie Fforde |
| ISBN | 1780890834 |
I normally like Katie Fforde's books, but not this one. I think the problem lies, for me, in two elements: too many leading ladies, and too much sex too soon.
Having three main characters, all having love interests, means that none of them get the attention they deserve. The characters were very...
The Brightest Star in the Sky
| Author | Marian Keyes |
| ISBN | 0718149866 |
Welcome to 66 Star Street . . . In the top-floor flat lives music exec Katie. She spends her days fighting off has-been rock stars and wondering how much cheesecake you'd need to eat yourself to death. Below her, a pair of muscular Poles share with a streetwise cabbie named Lydia, who has a sharp tongue,...
