The Rosemary Tree
10 best books like The Rosemary Tree (Elizabeth Goudge): Busman's Honeymoon, The Greengage Summer, The World of Jeeves, The Foundling, The Penderwicks in Spring, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been, The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Always Dreamed of, The Gypsy Madonna, The Temptation of Gracie, Have His Carcase
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0061043516 |
Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket..
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover;...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0060972440 |
Ever since the destruction of The Great Lighthouse we've been truly short of Wonders of the World. Okay, there’s still The Pyramids and of course people make claims for other impressive items of beauty – for example The Great Barrier Reef, or The Great Wall of China – for a place on any modern list....
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0373835493 |
A diffident young man of 24 years, easily pushed around by his overprotective uncle and the retinue of devoted family retainers who won't let him lift a finger for himself, Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware ("Gilly"), the seventh Duke of Sale, sometimes wishes he could be a commoner. One day he decides...
The Penderwicks in Spring
| Author | Jeanne Birdsall |
| ISBN | 0375870776 |
Springtime is finally arriving on Gardam Street, and there are surprises in store for each member of the family. Some surprises are just wonderful, like neighbor Nick Geiger coming home from war. And some are ridiculous, like Batty's new dog-walking business. Batty is saving up her dog-walking money...
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
| Author | Jackie Hill Perry |
| ISBN | 1462751229 |
"I used to be a lesbian."
In
Gay Girl, Good God
, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless, experienced gender confusion, and embraced both masculinity and homosexuality with every...
The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Always Dreamed of
| Author | John Eldredge |
| ISBN | 0785267166 |
Sometimes it seems we just can't get what we want. Circumstances thwart our best-laid plans. We struggle to live a heartfelt life. Worst of all, says Eldredge, the modern church mistakenly teaches its people to kill desire (calling it sin) and replace it with duty or obligation (calling it sanctification)....
| Author | Santa Montefiore |
| ISBN | 0743278895 |
A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina
When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as The Gypsy Madonna....
| Author | Santa Montefiore |
| ISBN | 1471169588 |
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how long you hold on to them . . .
Gracie Burton is a grandmother, living quietly in Devon. She has rarely left the village over the past forty years. Her daughter, Carina, is immensely high-powered with her own fast-paced business in London. She has very...
Mystery writer Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach -- deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut.
From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery...
