Gillespie and I
8 best books like Gillespie and I (Jane Harris): Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, Foreign Bodies, History of Beauty, Cairo, Mistress of Mourning, Painter of Silence, Emma Brown, The House at the Edge of Night
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.
In the...
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
| ISBN | 0547435576 |
Cynthia Ozick is one of America's literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James's The Ambassadors—the work he considered his best—but as a photographic negative, that is the plot is the same, the meaning is reversed. At the core...
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| ISBN | 0847826465 |
Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the...
| Author | Chris Womersley |
| ISBN | 1922070513 |
Frustrated by country life and eager for adventure and excitement, eighteen-year-old Tom Button moves to the city to study. Once there, and living in a run-down apartment block called Cairo, he is befriended by an eccentric musician Max Cheever, his beautiful wife Sally, and their close-knit circle...
| Author | Karen Harper |
| ISBN | 0451236904 |
In a gripping historical novel of suspense and romance from the national bestselling author of The Queen's Governess, two women fight to defeat the enemies of the precarious Tudor monarchy by uncovering the secrets of the dead... London, 1501. In a time of political unrest, Varina Westcott, a...
| Author | Georgina Harding |
| ISBN | 1408821125 |
Speed dating with books 4/6
Since I am moving my books from one room to another and building a new bookcase I realized (again) that I have way too many unread books. I decided to choose 6 (for the beginning) of the ones waiting on my shelves for a long time or that I do not know if I would like, read 50 pages...
| Author | Clare Boylan |
| ISBN | 0143034839 |
When Charlotte Bront� died in 1855, she left behind twenty pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since Jane Eyre. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Bront�'s novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With pitch-perfect tone that is utterly true to Bront�'s...
The House at the Edge of Night
| Author | Catherine Banner |
| ISBN | 0812998790 |
A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry works of Isabel Allende.
Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be...
