Scottsboro
10 best books like Scottsboro (Ellen Feldman): The Ventriloquist's Tale, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, Ice Road, Highways to a War, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Homestead, Spinsters, Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain, Ignorance, A Trick I Learned from Dead Men
| Author | Pauline Melville |
| ISBN | 1582340269 |
Pauline Melville conjures up vivid pictures both of savanna and forest and of city life in South America where love is often trumped by disaster. Unforgettable characters illuminate theme and plot: Sonny, the strange, beautiful and isolate son of Beatrice and Danny, the brother and sister who have...
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad
Monique Roffey's Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of postcolonialism that stands among great works by Caribbean writers like Jamaica...
| Author | Gillian Slovo |
| ISBN | 1844080595 |
Leningrad. 1933. Loyalties, beliefs, love and family ties: all are about to be tested to the limit in a fight to see who will survive one of the most crushing moments the world will ever know. Boris Ivanov, the father who understands politics and pragmatism; his daughter Natasha, a carefree, delightful...
| Author | Christopher J. Koch |
| ISBN | 0140247572 |
With the last leg of our travels taking us through the Indonchinese countries, I spied this book in Kuta and snatched it off the shelf. The story as summarised on the back of the cover told of Mike Langford a photo journalist who became lost in 1970s Khmer Rouge occupied Cambodia, probably dead, and it was...
| Author | Carrie Tiffany |
| ISBN | 0743286375 |
In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human condition and vividly evokes the hope and disappointment...
| Author | Rosina Lippi |
| ISBN | 0395977711 |
Each life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface of the tiny alpine village called Rosenau. Be it a mysteriously misaddressed love letter or a girl's careless delivery of two helpless relatives into Nazi hands, the town's balance is ever tested, and ever tender. Here is a novel spanning...
| Author | Pagan Kennedy |
| ISBN | 1852424052 |
It?s 1968, and Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally freed from family ties and constraints when their father dies. Taking off in their Plymouth Valiant they hit the road on a journey through the changing cultural landscape of America - civil rights marches, the assasinations of Martin...
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain
| Author | Simon Garfield |
| ISBN | 0091897335 |
In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually...
| Author | Michèle Roberts |
| ISBN | 1408816008 |
A stunning war-time novel set in France from Booker-shortlisted author Michèle Roberts.
After every war there are stories that are locked away like bluebottles in drawers and kept silent. But sometimes the past can return: in the smell of carbolic soap, in whispers darting through a village...
| Author | Kitty Aldridge |
| ISBN | 0224096435 |
After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee lands a traineeship at their local funeral home and discovers there is life after death. Here, in the company of a crooning ex-publican, a closet pole vaulter,...
| Author | Linda Grant |
| ISBN | 0452282926 |
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction
In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.
Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange...
| Author | Fiona Gibson |
| ISBN | 0373250649 |
I saw Fiona recently at my local library giving a talk on her writing and how she writes her books. This is her first book. I have to say I prefer her later titles but thus was a funny tale of a new mum and to try an alleviate some of the boredom she feels she starts taking her son to auditions for photo shoots for...
| Author | Maggie Gee |
| ISBN | 0863563805 |
“Outstanding . . . tender, sexy and alarming.”—Jim Crace
When Alfred White, patriarch of the White family, collapses at work, his wife, May, and their three disparate children find themselves confronting issues they would rather ignore. Maggie Gee skillfully weaves a narrative...
| Author | Christopher Wilson |
| ISBN | 0156030454 |
Mississippi, 1950. Lee is born a black baby with milky white skin, the result of a dalliance between his black mother and an Icelandic seaman. The local reverend surmises that Lee is God's way of showing "that He's got himself an Almighty sense of humor," but Lee's strange appearance is just one of the...
| Author | Éilís Ní Dhuibhne |
| ISBN | 0856406503 |
In a Donegal Gealtacht in 1972, four teenage girls from different sides of the border immerse themselves in Irish language and dance while also learning more about their own personal liberation. I finished this novel in a single sitting, I was so drawn in. At times I felt this narrative loomed right on...
| Author | Jill Dawson |
| ISBN | 0340751673 |
In the winter of 1922 Edith Thompson and her younger lover, Freddy Bywaters, were found guilty of murdering Percy Thompson, Edith's boorish husband. The two lovers were executed in a whirl of publicity in 1923. The case caused a sensation, a crime of passion that gripped the nation's imagination and...
| Author | Deirdre Madden |
| ISBN | 0571175511 |
Home
I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the quiet seaside town of Bangor, County Down. Although I had moved away before the Troubles started in 1968, I came back occasionally, and happened to be shopping in downtown Belfast during the bombings on "Bloody Friday" in July 1972. My wife and...
| Author | Manda Scott |
| ISBN | 0755325478 |
OK, Goodreads, that's like the worst blurb in the world. I really like Kellen’s first-person voice, although the habit she has of responding to dialogue with a thought before a new line for the actual response is confusing. I often had to go back and say, no she didn’t really say that. This is first...
| Author | Judy Budnitz |
| ISBN | 0312202857 |
In her utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, Judy Budnitz gives the traditional folktale an electrifying twist as she follows four generations of women from an Eastern European village to the tenements of an American city. Elena, born into a family ruled by a formidable mother,...
| Author | Mark I. Pinsky |
| ISBN | 0895876116 |
Madison County in the Blue Ridge Mountains is where federal antipoverty worker Nancy Dean Morgan was found naked, hogtied, and strangled in the backseat of her car in June 1970. An inept investigation failed to find a clear explanation of the motive or events of her murder. The case was left unsolved....
As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil brings the late-Victorian and early-Edwardian period to vivid life through the telling of the remarkable true story of the life of Mary Benson.
'She is as good as God, and as clever as the Devil.' Dame Ethel Smyth, English composer and leader of the women's...
| Author | Paul Monette |
| ISBN | 0758201885 |
Afterlife is a haunting and unforgettable story of men facing loss and seeking love, movingly capturing the moment in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was completely devastating the American gay community. Here, National Book Award winner Paul Monette depicts three men of various economic and social...
Write Right!: A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style
| Author | Jan Venolia |
| ISBN | 1580083285 |
The newest edition of Jan Venolia's best-selling guide, Write Right! is an essential resource for writers with 500,000+ copies sold since publication.
In this age of electronic correspondence and self-produced documents, we need a useful and reliable writing guide more than ever. Write...
| Author | Malla Nunn |
| ISBN | 1416586229 |
The second in a crime series set in 1950's South Africa when apartheid laws were first introduced.
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 1953. Forced to resign from his position of Detective Sergeant and re-classified as 'mixed race' after an incident involving a young black woman, Emmanuel Cooper winds...
