The Provincial Lady in Wartime

6 best books like The Provincial Lady in Wartime (E.M. Delafield): The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Wild Strawberries, Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames, Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery, The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Author	Bill Bryson
ISBN	0385539304

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...

Wild Strawberries

Author	Angela Thirkell
ISBN	1559213248

Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of Rushwater House. Lady Emily reigns behind a self-generated thicket of confusion and turmoil. There is no event so settled that Lady Emily cannot throw it into chaos at the last moment. Mr Leslie has been...

Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life

Author	Samantha Ellis
ISBN	1784740217

Anne Brontë is the forgotten Brontë sister, overshadowed by her older siblings -- virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented Brontë, the other Brontë.

Or that's what Samantha Ellis,...

Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

Author	Lara Maiklem
ISBN	1631494961

Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking across miles of the Thames’ muddy shores, where others only see the detritus of city life, Maiklem unearths evidence of England’s captivating, if sometimes...

Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery

Author

Joanna Cannon

An intimate, urgent account of doctor burnout and life as a psychiatrist from bestselling author Joanna Cannon "A few years ago, I found myself in A&E.

I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well, or even changed my...

The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History

Author

Manu S. Pillai

From a Maratha prince who parodied caste to a Muslim deity in a Hindu temple; from a courtesan who became a warrior princess to another who sang for the gramophone; from a woman with no breasts to a goddess with three; and from an Englishman who venerated sacred Sanskrit to imperious Victoria Maharani—the...