The Windsor Faction
8 best books like The Windsor Faction (D.J. Taylor): Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, Underland, Angel, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, The Rise of Kyoshi, Sun Horse, Moon Horse, Real Tigers, The Past
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
| Author | Katherine Rundell |
| ISBN | 1526610078 |
Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0393242145 |
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
| Author | Elizabeth Taylor |
| ISBN | 1844083071 |
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . .
After reading The...
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
| Author | Laura Cumming |
| ISBN | 1501198718 |
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.
In the...
| Author | F.C. Yee |
| ISBN | 1419735047 |
F. C. Yee’s The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom–born Avatar. The longest-living Avatar in this beloved world’s history, Kyoshi established the brave and respected Kyoshi Warriors, but also founded the secretive Dai Li, which led to the corruption, decline,...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0340268158 |
Sun Horse, Moon Horse is the story of Lubrin Dhu, third son of the Chieftain of the Iceni - the Early Iron Age horse people, who live by their skill in breeding and driving their great horse herds on the high chalk downs.
As a child, Lubrin sees the patterns of a private magic in his mind's eye - in the...
| Author | Mick Herron |
| ISBN | 1616956127 |
London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. But when one of these “slow horses” is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents must breach the defenses of Regent’s Park to steal valuable intel in exchange...
| Author | Tessa Hadley |
| ISBN | 0345816110 |
A mesmerizing novel about family and the modern world encroaching upon the old, from one of Britain's finest contemporary novelists.
Three adult sisters and their brother meet up at their grandparents' country home for their annual family holiday--three long, hot summer weeks. The beloved...
