Round Ireland in Low Gear
10 best books like Round Ireland in Low Gear (Eric Newby): Foucault's Pendulum, Quichotte, Orange World and Other Stories, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, Paradise Lodge, Planting: A New Perspective, The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country, A Very Private Eye: The Diaries, Letters And Notebooks Of Barbara Pym, Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy, Reasons to Be Cheerful
Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.
To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...
| Author | Nina Stibbe |
| ISBN | 0241974925 |
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to commit to...
Planting: A New Perspective
| Author | Piet Oudolf |
| ISBN | 1604693703 |
Hollandi aiakujundaja Piet Oudolfi tööd on nii omanäolised, et teda võib pidada uue istutusstiili loojaks. See stiil põhineb püsikute, kõrreliste jt taimede kooskasutusel ja jätab mulje, nagu oleksid tihedates segaistutustes kasvavad liigid jõudnud tagasi oma looduslikku kasvupaika....
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 0195042212 |
This passionate evocation of Wales by the author Rebecca West has hailed as "perhaps the best descriptive writer of our times" encapsulates that country in all its aspects, past, present, and even future. Jan Morris shows clearly the manners of thought of the Welch people, as well as their art, their...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 0333349954 |
I've suddenly found myself enchanted with Barbara Pym's novels, and couldn't resist reading this collection of her journals, letters and notes, edited by her sister and her executor. Her writing and distinct Pymness in these texts is just as delightful as in her novels. She comes across as kind and...
| Author | Norman Lewis |
| ISBN | 0786714387 |
From the author Graham Greene called "one of our best writers, not of any particular decade but of our century," comes a masterpiece about a war-ravaged city under occupation
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded...
| Author | Nina Stibbe |
| ISBN | 0241240522 |
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the tall buildings, couldn't shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples from the hell...
Mr Finchley Discovers His England
| Author | Victor Canning |
| ISBN | 0330233963 |
3+ Stars. "What is a holiday without change and excitement?" Ask Edgar Finchley, Esquire. MR. FINCHLEY DISCOVERS HIS ENGLAND was Victor Canning's first novel and a runaway best seller in 1934; and now, his novels are being re-released. This one, first in a trilogy is old-fashioned and silly....yes,...
An Almost Perfect Christmas
| Author | Nina Stibbe |
| ISBN | 0241309824 |
'This book is the seasonal garnish we all need' Observer
"My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and...
