The Pastor's Wife
10 best books like The Pastor's Wife (Elizabeth von Arnim): Pro Bono, Jane of Lantern Hill, Tongues of Serpents, Postern of Fate, The Song of Names, Imagined Lives: Portraits of unknown people, The Second Worst Restaurant in France, The Peppermint Tea Chronicles, The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery, The Colors of All the Cattle
| Author | Seichō Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 1934287024 |
When Kiriko Yanagida first came to Otsuka's law offices, she had only a familial conviction of her brother's innocence despite his confessing to the murder. To the high-profile (and high priced) lawyer Otsuka, this small-town girl's belief was nothing more than naive hope, so he sent her away, advising...
For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart and her mother lived with her grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead until she accidentally learned he was alive and well and living on Prince Edward Island. When Jane spends the summer at his cottage on Lantern...
| Author | Naomi Novik |
| ISBN | 0345496892 |
A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik’s Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellers—they are a worldwide...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007111487 |
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently...
| Author | Norman Lebrecht |
| ISBN | 1400034892 |
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the...
Imagined Lives: Portraits of unknown people
| Author | Tarnya Cooper |
| ISBN | 1855144557 |
Published on the occasion of a new display at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 3 December - August 2012.
Eight internationally acclaimed authors have invented imaginary biographies and character sketches based on fourteen unidentified portraits.
Who are these men...
The Second Worst Restaurant in France
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1846974216 |
Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.
So when Paul's eccentric cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she's rented in the French...
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1846974836 |
To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting.
For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson - he of the clove-scented hair gel - it may...
The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery
With their signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, Martha Grimes’s New York Times bestselling Richard Jury mysteries are “utterly unlike anyone else’s detective novels” (Washington Post). In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective...
The Colors of All the Cattle
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1524747807 |
In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe finds herself running for office--much to her dismay.
When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the Gaborone City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first...
