Temples of Delight

6 best books like Temples of Delight (Barbara Trapido): Of Love and Shadows, A House for Mr Biswas, Hideous Kinky, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, Some Tame Gazelle

Of Love and Shadows

Author	Isabel Allende
ISBN	0553383833

Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. Together, they form...

A House for Mr Biswas

Author	V.S. Naipaul
ISBN	0330487191

This one might make you pull your hair out. So if you're already bald you may need to read it wearing a wig. Also, you need a magnifying glass to find the plot. I had to take samples & send them off to a lab. Apparently there are detectable traces of story in here. But not so's you'd notice.

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Hideous Kinky

Author	Esther Freud
ISBN	0880016884

Quaint & beautiful. Why Kate Winslet played the mother in the film version after doing "Titanic" is obvious... this is an attractive role. The matriarch is positively enigmatic, & the little girls are total darlings. Morocco is a land of enchantment & magic (my one day spent there was one...

The Castle of Llyr

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0805080503

Princess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer Dallben. Why does she have to go to the Isle of Mona to train as a proper lady when she's already a princess? But Eilonwy soon faces much more than the ordeal of becoming a dignified young maiden, for she possesses...

Taran Wanderer

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0805080511

Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer; he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand of the Princess Eilonwy. Eager to find his origins, Taran sets off with the faithful Gurgi on a quest across the marvelous land of Prydain. Their journey takes them to the three witches in the Marshes of Morva,...

Some Tame Gazelle

Author	Barbara Pym
ISBN	1559212640

Barbara Pym is a master at capturing the subtle mayhem that takes place in the apparent quiet of the English countryside. Fifty-something sisters Harriet and Belinda Bede live a comfortable, settled existence. Belinda, the quieter of the pair, has for years been secretly in love with the town's pompous...