Molesworth
10 best books like Molesworth (Geoffrey Willans): Airs Above the Ground, Interesting Times: The Play, According to Queeney, The Wimbledon Poisoner, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Go Saddle the Sea, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber, Guards! Guards!: The Play, An Air That Kills
Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. She never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the...
Interesting Times: The Play
| Author | Stephen Briggs |
| ISBN | 0413772195 |
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels
The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor.
He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding...
| Author | Beryl Bainbridge |
| ISBN | 0786709820 |
Bainbridge's brilliantly imagined, universally acclaimed, Booker Prize-longlisted novel portrays the inordinate appetites and unrequited love touched off when the most celebrated man of eighteenth-century English letters, Samuel Johnson, enters the domain of a wealthy Southwark brewer...
| Author | Nigel Williams |
| ISBN | 0571173667 |
Wife: "What are you reading?"
Me: "The Wimbledon Poisoner. It's about a man trying to poison his wife."
This is a black comedy out of Britain, which some passages I found laugh out funny but others might find cringe-worthy. This confirms to me I'm a little bit warped.
I concede this novel...
| Author | Penelope Lively |
| ISBN | 1405225424 |
Annual re-read. First encountered at the age of ten, in primary school (in fact I still have Mrs. Halsall's own copy, sorry, Miss) and loved since. Lively's enduring ghost story tells of James Harrison being haunted by a bad-tempered C17th poltergeist whose distaste of the modern world manifests itself...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0152060642 |
Felix Brooke, the orphaned son of an English soldier and an aristocratic Spanish mother, has been raised in the strict, loveless household of his grandfather in Villaverde, Spain. When Felix gains possession of a letter that contains a clue to the whereabouts of his father’s family, he gladly runs...
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible
| Author | Robin Lane Fox |
| ISBN | 0679744061 |
A fascinating introduction to Biblical studies, showing how the texts that make up the Bible we have are amalgamations of many sources, how many prophecies from Isiah etc were later additions tailored to explain to the populations of the two ancient Kingdoms of Judah and Israel why their histories...
Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber
| Author | John Gregory Betancourt |
| ISBN | 0743452402 |
In Roger Zelazny's Amber universe, there is only one true world, of which all others are but Shadows. In the ten-book saga that he created, it is learned that Amber was not the first true world; rather, it was The Courts of Chaos. The saga chronicled the adventures of the royal family of Amber, culminating...
Guards! Guards!: The Play
| Author | Stephen Briggs |
| ISBN | 0552144312 |
I don't read science fiction or fantasy. Some might say that Pratchett is a fantasy writer. I say that he is a humorous satirist. This is the book that started my love of his writing, with at least a giggle on nearly every page, and "the sentence" that made me want to read anything he writes... ever... for...
| Author | Andrew Taylor |
| ISBN | 0340617136 |
I'm so glad this was my first read book in 2010! Way to start out the year.
If you like a British mystery with an old-time feel, written by a man who knows how to write(!), then you've found a great new series. I almost checked my "classics" shelf when I logged this one in, because in many ways it feels...
The Various Haunts of Men
| Author | Susan Hill |
| ISBN | 1585678767 |
Having transferred to the small cathedral town of Lafferton from London's "Met," police detective Freya Graffham explores her new community and becomes fascinated by Chief Insp. Simon Serrailler, her enigmatic superior. Though she fits well within the local police force, she finds herself unable...
