The Balkan Trilogy
7 best books like The Balkan Trilogy (Olivia Manning): Non-Stop, The Rainbow (Brangwen Family, #1), The White Devil, The Four Just Men, Invitation to the Waltz, The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale Nota Bene), The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 1585676837 |
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0451530306 |
Set in the rural Midlands of England, The Rainbow (1915) revolves around three generations of the Brangwens, a strong, vigorous family, deeply involved with the land. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow,Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is unprepared for the conflict and...
| Author | John Webster |
| ISBN | 1426465246 |
"John Webster's first independent play, The White Devil, originally performed in 1612, centres on the beautiful Vittoria Corombona and her lover, Duke Brachiano, whose passionate, adulterous affair unleashes the powerful revenge of their enemies. While clearly guilty of lust and murder, these...
When the Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed FOUR JUST MEN, he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members' smokeroom and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitro-glycerine leave Scotland...
| Author | Rosamond Lehmann |
| ISBN | 1844083055 |
A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her seventeenth birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted...
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale Nota Bene)
| Author | Tim Judah |
| ISBN | 0300085079 |
A solid and even-handed history of the Serbian people from antiquity until the end of Yugoslavia. Who would've thought that such a small people would have such a grand idea of their historical destiny? The Greater Serbia ideology that led to the 1990s war has deep roots going back into medieval history....
The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
| Author | Mary S. Lovell |
| ISBN | 1681775158 |
The Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan...
