The Museum of Mary Child

6 best books like The Museum of Mary Child (Cassandra Golds): This Is How You Lose the Time War, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Big Sky, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, The Widow's House

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Author

Amal El-Mohtar

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

And thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Author	Anne Lamott
ISBN	0385480016

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...

Big Sky

Author

Kate Atkinson

Jackson Brodie, ex-military police, ex-Cambridge Constabulary, currently working as a private investigator, makes a highly anticipated return, nine years after the last Brodie, Started Early, Took My Dog.

Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company...

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Author	Lynne Truss
ISBN	1592402038

In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...

Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen

Author	Serena Valentino
ISBN	1423106296

The tale of the young princess and her evil stepmother, the Wicked Queen, is widely known. Despite a few variations from telling to telling, the story remains the same—the Queen was jealous of the girl’s beauty, and this jealousy culminated in the Queen’s attempt on the sweet, naive girl’s...

The Widow's House

Author	Carol Goodman
ISBN	0062562630

This chilling novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages blends the gothic allure of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca and the crazed undertones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper with the twisty, contemporary edge of A.S.A. Harrison’s The Silent...