The Ventriloquist's Tale

10 best books like The Ventriloquist's Tale (Pauline Melville): Kudos, Notes to Self: Essays, Trinidad Noir, Fiddler's Green, The Otterbury Incident, Incognito, Crossing the Mangrove, 31 Bond Street, Park Lane, The Turquoise

Kudos
AuthorRachel Cusk
ISBN1473524334
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface...
Notes to Self: Essays
AuthorEmilie Pine
ISBN1999700848
`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, the first non- fiction book published by Tramp Press, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. Tackling...
AuthorLisa Allen-Agostini
ISBN1933354550
I recently discovered the Noir series and I am hooked. Having read "Kingston Noir" I decided to read "Trinidad Noir".

I have been living in Trinidad and Tobago for the last four years and it is always so enlightening to read about a place you currently live or visited. I have to admit, while this...
AuthorA.S. Peterson
ISBN0982621418
The long-awaited sequel and conclusion to A. S. Peterson's critically-acclaimed The Fiddler's Gun. Fin Button undertakes a perilous voyage to the Barbary Coast to aid the War for Independence and secure a pardon for herself and her men. But the journey will lead them through waters far darker than...
AuthorC. Day-Lewis
ISBN0435120018
“This is a really super story—I shold know, I wrote it. My name is George, and I’m Ted’s second-in-command: Ted is is centre-forward of the Junior XI at King’s School in Otterbury and a first class chap. He’s the leader of our company, and the story began with our battle against Toppy’s...
AuthorGregory Murphy
ISBN0425241033
An elegant literary mystery set during the Gilded Age.

New York City, 1911. Representing the widow of a Wall Street financier, lawyer William Dysart travels to a small Long Island town with a generous offer for Miss Sybil Curtis's cottage and five acres of land. But when Sybil refuses to sell,...
AuthorMaryse Condé
ISBN0385476337
In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au...
31 Bond Street
AuthorEllen Horan
Based on a true story, mystery and intrigue in pre-Civil War New York The sensational murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell in his lower Manhattan home made front-page news across the United States in 1857. "Who killed Dr. Burdell?" was a question that gripped the nation. 31 Bond Street, a debut novel by Ellen...
Park Lane
AuthorFrances Osborne
ISBN1844084787
London, February 1914. Eighteen year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London from Carlisle, her family's hopes pinned on her becoming a secretary. The only job she can find is as a housemaid in the mansion that is Number 35, Park Lane, and soon she is entangling herself in an ever-thickening web of lies....
The Turquoise
AuthorAnya Seton
ISBN0340157003
It is the story of a beautiful, gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the piratical, opulent, gaslit New York of the 1870s—only to end her search for happiness back in the high, thin air of Santa Fe.

Santa Fe Cameron, named for the place of her birth, was the child...
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