Patience
9 best books like Patience (John Coates): Family Matters, Miss Buncle's Book, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, A Stranger In My Grave, Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary, Delicacy, Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages, The Women In Black
Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent...
| Author | D.E. Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0708908349 |
Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from fellow residents of her quaint English village, writing a revealing novel that features the townsfolk as characters. The smashing bestseller is published...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
| Author | Holly Jackson |
| ISBN | 1405293187 |
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.
But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her...
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
| Author | Xiaolu Guo |
| ISBN | 0701180382 |
This is the semi-fictionalised diary of a 24 year old Chinese woman coming to London to learn English. It was published in 2007, five years after the author came to the UK on an educational scholarship awarded by The British Council. She knew little about her destination, and felt understandably lost...
| Author | Margaret Millar |
| ISBN | 0749002239 |
When I decided to go on a bender with female mystery writers from the mid-twentieth century, this book caught my eye for a couple reasons. I read that Ross MacDonald (the Lew Archer mysteries) and Millar were married, and because Millar had already made a reputation for herself as a mystery writer, Ross...
| Author | Ruby Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1903155436 |
Sometimes the introduction (or foreword) to a book is a pointless bore, but it can also illuminate a book in a particular way that makes the reading experience more enjoyable. Candia McWilliam provides the foreword to this one and I highly recommend that you read it first, as it does set you up for what...
| Author | David Foenkinos |
| ISBN | 0062004360 |
He had managed to navigate his way to the French language section of the bookshop; now he had no idea what to do. Some of the titles were at least recognizable. Madame Bovary... but surely she would have read it? And the same went for Du côté de chez Swann. Maybe this was not such a good idea after all.
"Can...
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
| Author | Gaston Dorren |
| ISBN | 0802128793 |
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these...
| Author | Madeleine St. John |
| ISBN | 0349105227 |
Sydney in the late 1950s. On the second floor of the famous F.G. Goode department store, in Ladies' Cocktail Frocks, the women in black are girding themselves for the Christmas rush. Lisa is the new Sales Assistant (Temporary). Across the floor and beyond the arch, she is about to meet the glamorous Continental...
