Fred & Edie

6 best books like Fred & Edie (Jill Dawson): The Daughter of Time, Ask the Dust, The Last Word, The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England, Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History, The Wonkiest Witch

The Daughter of Time

Author	Josephine Tey
ISBN	0684803860

In 1951, Josephine Tey wrote her 5th novel in the Inspector Grant series. In 1990, this mystery novel was named the greatest mystery novel of all time by the British Crime Writers' Association. After reading it, I can definitely see why.

For one thing, during the entire novel, Inspector Alan...

Ask the Dust

Author	John Fante
ISBN	0060822554

Ask the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is...

The Last Word

Author	Lisa Lutz
ISBN	1451686684

The latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Spellman mysteries, finds private investigator Izzy Spellman on the verge of losing everything.

Isabel Spellman is used to being followed, extorted, and questioned—all occupational hazards of working at her family’s firm,...

The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England

Author	Barbara A. Hanawalt
ISBN	0195045645

Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth-...

Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History

Author	Barbara A. Hanawalt
ISBN	0195093844

When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt's book "as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers...

The Wonkiest Witch

Author

Jeannie Wycherley

Alfhild Daemonne has inherited an inn.

And a dead body.

Estranged from her witch mother, and having committed to little in her thirty years, Alf surprises herself when she decides to start a new life.

She heads deep into the English countryside intent on making a success of...