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9 best books like Thomas (Robin Jarvis): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Bones of the Hills, Ducks, Newburyport, Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses, Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía, Songe à la douceur, The Military Philosophers, The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's Art

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525541330
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
Bones of the Hills
AuthorConn Iggulden
ISBN0007201788
A seriously astounding piece of historical fiction that left me speechless in many ways.

“We are not here to earn riches with a bow. The wolf does not think of fine things, only that his pack is strong and no other wolf dares to cross his path. That is enough.”

I can’t help but...
Ducks, Newburyport
AuthorLucy Ellmann
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of “happy couples”, Weapons of...
Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
AuthorOvid
ISBN0374525870
A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses...
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
AuthorChris Stewart
ISBN0953522709
No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife, that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. That was the easy part.

Lush with olive, lemon, and almond groves,...
Songe à la douceur
AuthorClémentine Beauvais
ISBN2848659084
Quand Tatiana rencontre Eugène, elle a 14 ans, il en a 17 ; c’est l’été, et il n’a rien d’autre à faire que de lui parler. Il est sûr de lui, charmant, et plein d’ennui, et elle timide, idéaliste et romantique. Inévitablement, elle tombe amoureuse de lui, et lui, semblerait-il… aussi....
The Military Philosophers
AuthorAnthony Powell
ISBN0006540503

“The Military Philosophers” is the third and final part of the Autumn sequence in the Dance to the Music of Time. It also covers the second world war up to the time of final victory. As usual, I looked into the first pages for a powerful, allegoric image to set the mood and to act as a catalyst for the...
The Valley of Bones
AuthorAnthony Powell
ISBN0753158205
With their lives drastically remodeled by World War II, the characters of The Dance to the Music of Time series continue their colorful exploits. Nicholas Jenkins, the narrarator, now in his thirties, is second-lieutenant in an infrantry regiment and life in the army is examined at startingly close...
The Soldier's Art
AuthorAnthony Powell
ISBN0434599115

It should come as no surprise for the readers who follow the movements of the Dance that Anthony Powell likes to start each episode with an allegorical scene, a trigger for the memories of the past and a sort of preview of events to come. For the number eight novel, the simple act of Nick Jenkins buying...
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