The House in Norham Gardens
10 best books like The House in Norham Gardens (Penelope Lively): Marianne Dreams, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon, Mirror of Danger, The Cats of Seroster, Duncton Rising, The Stones of Green Knowe, A House-Boat on the Styx, They Knew Mr. Knight, Speciale Violante
| Author | Catherine Storr |
| ISBN | 0571202128 |
Ill and bored with having to stay in bed, Marianne picks up a pencil and starts doodling - a house, a garden, a boy at the window. That night she has an extraordinary dream. She is transported into her own picture, and as she explores further she soon realises she is not alone. The boy at the window is called...
This story can classify under the category of a 'fable'. Compared to others, it can be considered 'short'. It depicts a lesson that it is okay to accept help from others and that you should not take it for granted. When the elves helped the people in the town, most were grateful but the ones who were not ultimately...
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
| Author | Dean Bakopoulos |
| ISBN | 0156031671 |
The summer Michael Smolij turns seventeen, his father disappears. One by one other men also vanish from outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families, and, in a more promising era, lived. One man props open the door to his shoe Wisconsin. store and leaves a note. "I'm going...
| Author | Pamela Sykes |
| ISBN | 0671411349 |
Originally published in Britain as Come Back, Lucy.
The mirror looked ordinary. It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared beside hers, laughing. Whirling around in surprise...
| Author | Robert Westall |
| ISBN | 0330292390 |
This is one of those few childhood favourites that I don't seem to share with many people - but what's not to like about a historical fantasy with telepathic cats set in southern France?
Englishman Cam of Cambridge is on the move again after his clever thinking gets him accused of witchcraft....
| Author | William Horwood |
| ISBN | 0006473024 |
This is the second book in The Book of Silence, the second of the Duncton Trilogies…
As Privet, scholar and scribemole and her adopted son Whillan escape from Duncton Wood in search of the Book of Silence, the Newborn Inquisitors seek to take the system over. Only old Stour, Master Librarian,...
| Author | Lucy M. Boston |
| ISBN | 0152055665 |
A beautifully realized finish to a great series. I don't do many "series," but Boston's writing is so evocative of a time and place, the feelings of comfort and serenity she conjures become addictive. The characters are indelibly etched in my mind - Grandmother Oldknowe, Tolly, Ping, Linnet, Toby and...
| Author | John Kendrick Bangs |
The premise of the book is that everyone who's ever died (up to the time of its publication) has gone to Styx, the river that circles the underworld. The book begins with the ferryman Charon being startled & annoyed by the arrival of a houseboat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out...
| Author | Dorothy Whipple |
| ISBN | 1903155088 |
This is a pitch-perfect period piece: middle class couple in their mid 40s, living in middle England, mid wars. It could have been hackneyed, or just dull, but it isn't - and it's beautifully written.
It opens with exquisite descriptions of the minor niggles of a slightly dull life; the precise...
| Author | Bianca Pitzorno |
| ISBN | 8804445343 |
Le lunghe estate in un paesino di montagna sono, per tre amiche "cittadine, un'occasione per ritrovarsi e godere dei tranquilli passatempi di sempre. Ma ecco che arriva, a sconvolgere le loro giornate, la troupe televisiva di un popolarissima sceneggiato, la cui interprete è una famosa diva adolescente:...
| Author | Pascal Garnier |
| ISBN | 1908313633 |
Fabien and Sylvie both knew their marriage wasn't working. But when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, Fabien is stunned to discover she had a lover who died with her. Harbouring thoughts of revenge, he tracks down the lover's widow, Martine, and begins stalking her. Fabien is desperate to get...
St Mawr is a short novel (or novella) written by D. H. Lawrence. It was first published in 1925.
The heroine of the story, Lou Witt, abandons her sterile marriage and a brittle, cynical post-First World War England. Her sense of alienation is associated with her encounter with a high-spirited...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0553243950 |
Bobby Perkins knew the minute he saw Mr. Hulka, his sinister new neighbor, that the man was evil. Then one morning, while spying on the man, who works as an undertaker, Bobby thinks he witnesses a violent crime. Bobby is determined to expose Mr. Hulka, and he asks his best friend, Lauri, to help him. The...
| Author | Michael Wombat |
| ISBN | 1291313486 |
You know how it is. We’ve all experienced it while driving. You suddenly realise that you have no idea where you are, or what your destination is. After a few seconds light dawns and you remember where you are going.
But what if light didn’t dawn? What if you continued to know nothing before...
| Author | Dodie Smith |
| ISBN | 0434713538 |
London's theatre world of the 1920's provides a glittering backdrop for Mouse, an eighteen-year-old Lancashire girl intent on a stage career. She tells the story herself with the utmost frankness and with an authenticity which derives from Dodie Smith's own wide experience as both actress and playwright.
Mouse...
Malcolm Stevenson, a wealthy ex-naval officer haunted by his memories of the war, finds his lonely life turned upside down one night when he runs into trouble on a road near the coast. What at first appears to be an accident leads him to discover an international conspiracy against his country—and...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0140312234 |
In the sixth century A.D. the Saxons ruled Southern England. After the great battle of Aquae Sulis, Owain, injured, wakes to find his father and brother killed during the fight. On the battlefield the only other living thing is a lean and hungry dog. This story covers the twelve years following the battle...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0440463041 |
No one in the Reverend Bell's family wants to leave the beloved old parish and move to Crestel New Town, where people haven't had the chance to become friends.
It's up to the Bells to give them that chance. Before long the four children--Paul, Jane, Ginnie, and Angus--start looking for ways to help...
| Author | E.M. Delafield |
| ISBN | 0897332105 |
These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the children's French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. The era of the 1930s is wittily and shrewdly recreated with amusing illustrations.World...
| Author | Jill Murphy |
| ISBN | 0230015476 |
This book tells the story of a bear who finds household objects and turns them into a helmet, space boots and a rocket so he can go to the moon. On the way he encounters an owl who joins him on his journey. They land on the moon and have a picnic but eventually get bored, and thus decide to go back home. When he arrives...
| Author | Oliver James |
| ISBN | 0091900107 |
There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver James travelled around the world to try...
