Motherland
6 best books like Motherland (William Nicholson): Plaid and Plagiarism, The Samurai's Garden, Middle England, Mrs Queen Takes the Train, Why Religion?: A Personal Story, Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food
| Author | Molly MacRae |
| ISBN | 1681772566 |
A murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy mystery novel from Molly MacRae.
Set in the weeks before the annual Inversgail Literature Festival in Scotland, Plaid and Plagiarism begins on a morning shortly after the four...
| Author | Gail Tsukiyama |
| ISBN | 0312144075 |
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and...
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
| ISBN | 0241309468 |
Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disruption in Britain. There are the early married years of Sophie and Ian who disagree about the future of Britain and, possibly, the future of their...
| Author | William Kuhn |
| ISBN | 0062208284 |
An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team...
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0062368559 |
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...
Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food
| Author | Laura Thomas |
| ISBN | 1509893911 |
I spotted this book in the library and decided to read it mainly as a challenge for myself. My relationship with food is not great, to put it mildly, but lately I’ve been working to improve it. I skimmed the first few pages and thought it seemed sensible, so borrowed it. ‘Just Eat It’ is definitely...
