John MacNab

Author	Mark Girouard
ISBN	0300058705

This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In it, renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classes—their public and personal lives, their...

Author

Alasdair Gray

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Inflated Footnotes: "Lanark - A Life in Four Books" by Alasdair Gray




(Original Review, 1981-03-10)



I don't have problem with intertextual interpretation as such. It's only that...

Author	P.C. Wren
ISBN	0899681352

Questions of duty and decency as shield over a loved one are examined in this wonderful novel of adventure and friendship. Michael, Digby and John (the Geste brothers) run away to join the French Foreign Legion in Algeria after the "Blue Water" sapphire disappears and Lady Brandon (the aunt who has raised...

Author	Max Hastings
ISBN	0062405667

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.

Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one...

Author	Andrew Greig
ISBN	0571212859

What a wonderful book this is, one of those that lingers with you long after you’ve finished reading it. It’s got a deep melancholy running through it but also lots of passion, love, and light(ish)-hearted comment on Scotland’s east/west divide. Author Andrew Greig has published books on mountaineering,...

Author

Maria Edgeworth

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackrent tells the story of three generations of an estate--owning family as seen through the eyes—and as told in the voice—of their longtime servant, Thady Quirk, recorded and commented on by an anonymous...

Author

Linda Gillard

Can the power of love overcome life’s darkest memories and deepest losses? When her favourite beech tree is felled in a storm, Ann feels as if someone has died. But when long-hidden seed packets are found inside the trunk, Ann realises there are more memories than her own lurking within the ancient...