Last Letters from Hav
10 best books like Last Letters from Hav (Jan Morris): Nightmare Abbey, Flights, Illywhacker, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, Rules for Visiting, The Old Devils, Headlong Hall, You Belong Here, The Colour of Blood, The Home Front: Life in America During World War II
| Author | Thomas Love Peacock |
This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to Peacock's contemporaries, including characters based on Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr....
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525534199 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration...
My previous experiences of Carey have been mixed. I really enjoyed True History of the Kelly Gang, but found both Oscar and Lucinda and Parrot and Olivier in America over-long and a little tedious, though both had their moments and were funny at times. When I saw the size of this one and the density of the...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
| Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
| ISBN | 0316478520 |
In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide in her cell. What went wrong? Talking to Strangers is all about what happens when we encounter people we...
| Author | Jessica Francis Kane |
| ISBN | 0525559221 |
A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.
At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in...
Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining,...
| Author | Thomas Love Peacock |
| ISBN | 1406908452 |
Excerpt: ...mould, and covering the whole with an elegant stratum of turf. Squire Headlong caught with avidity at this suggestion; and, as he had always a store of gunpowder in the house, for the accommodation of himself and his shooting visitors, and for the supply of a small battery of cannon, which...
| Author | M.H. Clark |
| ISBN | 1938298993 |
The stars belong in the deep night sky, and the moon belongs there too, and the winds belong in each place they blow by, and I belong here with you. So begins this classic bedtime book, richly illustrated by award-winning artist Isabelle Arsenault. The pages journey around the world, observing plants...
Somewhere in an unnamed Eastern bloc country, someone is out to silence Cardinal Bern. Is it the Secret Police, or is it - more shockingly - fanatical Catholic activists who believe that Bern, by keeping the peace between Church and State, has finally compromised himself too far?
Narrowly...
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Free for a limited time. Narrated by award-winning actor Martin Sheen, The Home Front: Life in America During World War II takes listeners into the lives of Americans at home who supported the war effort and sustained the country during wartime. The war brought immediate, life-changing...
| Author | Susan Bell |
| ISBN | 0393057526 |
The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood—or simply overlooked—art of editing. Brimming with examples, quotes, and case studies that include an illuminating discussion of Max Perkins's editorial collaboration with F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Great Gatsby, this book...
Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
| Author | Leonard Koren |
| ISBN | 1880656124 |
Some books are one-day reads, one-sitting reads, etc. This book was a one-bath read.
Our bath has lost almost all its enamel. It scratches my bum. Very Wabi-Sabi. My phone has a crack I refuse to fix. I like to slide my finger along smooth glass of the phone and feel the rupture. Very Wabi-Sabi....
