The Gates of Ivory By Margaret Drabble

---

Title	:	The Gates of Ivory
Author	:	Margaret Drabble
ISBN	:	0140167196
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	480

---

The Gates of Ivory is a vibrant, mesmerizing novel that juxtaposes the cynical, sophisticated realm of London against the dreaded world of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot s Cambodia In London, psychiatrist Liz Headleand receives an unexpected package, containing, among other things, a laundry bill from a hotel in Bangkok, old newspaper clippings, and two human finger bones S The Gates of Ivory is a vibrant, mesmerizing novel that juxtaposes the cynical, sophisticated realm of London against the...

Rantings

1.5

View

71

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Dangerous Waters (The Guernsey Novels, #1) By Anne Allen

---

Title	:	Dangerous Waters (The Guernsey Novels, #1)
Author	:	Anne Allen
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	302

---

Tragedy seems to follows Jeanne Le Page around Can she really go through it again and survive Jeanne Le Page is lucky to be alive 15 years ago she was almost killed in a boating accident which brought heart breaking family tragedy Now 31, Jeanne is reluctantly returning to the Island of Guernsey following the death of her beloved Grandmother Struggling for breath as Tragedy seems to follows Jeanne Le Page around Can she really go through it again and survive Jeanne Le Page is lucky to be alive 1...

Rantings

4.5

View

9

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

The Bride of Abydos By George Gordon Byron

---

Title	:	The Bride of Abydos
Author	:	George Gordon Byron
ISBN	:	1419155261
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	52

---

With none to listen and reply To thoughts with which my heart beat high Were irksome for whate er my mood, In sooth I love not solitude I on Zuleika s slumber broke....

Rantings

5.5

View

4665

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Life in the Victorian Country House By Pamela Horn

---

Title	:	Life in the Victorian Country House
Author	:	Pamela Horn
ISBN	:	0747807507
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	128

---

Country houses formed a distinct community and power base within the broader Victorian countryside This book shows how landed families day to day existence depended on the skills of the indoor servants who provided their meals and ministered to their general comfort, and the outdoor staff who contributed to their leisure and sporting pursuits It considers the relationsh Country houses formed a distinct community and power base within the broader Victorian countryside This book shows how landed families da...

Rantings

5.5

View

1514

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Village Diary (Chronicles of Fairacre, #2) By Miss Read

---

Title	:	Village Diary (Chronicles of Fairacre, #2)
Author	:	Miss Read
ISBN	:	0618884157
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

---

The enchanting follow up to Village School, Miss Read s beloved first novel, Village Diary once again transports us to the picturesque English village of Fairacre Each chapter describes a month in the life of the village school s headmistress, Miss Read As the villagers prepare for their country pageant, Fairacre welcomes many newcomers, such as the headstrong Amy, Mr M The enchanting follow up to Village School, Miss Read s beloved first novel, Village Diary once again transports us to the picturesque En...

Rantings

4.5

View

1649

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

The Hundred Years War By Christopher Allmand

---

Title	:	The Hundred Years War
Author	:	Christopher Allmand
ISBN	:	0521319234
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	232

---

A comparative study of how the societies of late medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them from political, military, social and economic perspectives....

Rantings

2.5

View

1166

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Staring At The Sun By Julian Barnes

---

Title	:	Staring At The Sun
Author	:	Julian Barnes
ISBN	:	0330299301
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	195

---

Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020 This novel enables readers to follow her experience in marriage, her questioning of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China....

Rantings

3.5

View

81

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

British Country House in the Eighteenth Century By Christopher Christie

---

Title	:	British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
Author	:	Christopher Christie
ISBN	:	0719047242
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	320

---

In this lavishly illustrated book, Christopher Christie explores the British country house during the period 1700 1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them Christie s clear and thoughtful analysis provides insight into many different areas the role and rank of family and servants, furniture, landscape, architecture, painting, sc In this lavishly illustrated book, Christopher Christie explores the British country house during the period 1700 1830 and looks at the ...

Rantings

1.5

View

51

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Murder... Now and Then (Lloyd & Hill, #6) By Jill McGown

---

Title	:	Murder... Now and Then (Lloyd & Hill, #6)
Author	:	Jill McGown
ISBN	:	0449223116
Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages	:	346

---

If ever anyone deserved to die, it was millionaire Victor Holyoak.Holyoak s favorite tactic was to kick people when they were down, then pick them up and kick them again Now the great man himself was down brutally stabbed to death in his penthouse apartment.Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd felt a creepy sense of deja vu For though certain he d never seen Holyoak s scar If ever anyone deserved to die, it was millionaire Victor Holyoak.Holyoak s favorite tactic was to kick people when they were dow...

Rantings

1.5

View

51

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Diana, Princess of Wales By Tim Graham

---

Title	:	Diana, Princess of Wales
Author	:	Tim Graham
ISBN	:	1566495997
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	89

---

The emotional outpouring on hearing of the Princess of Wales s death has taken many by surprise, but the love and regard ordinary people had for her has never been in doubt Diana was many things to many people tireless charity worker, style icon, loving mother and in this book we se the many facets of her personality in a heartfelt tribute to a remarkable woman Fro The emotional outpouring on hearing of the Princess of Wales s death has taken many by surprise, but the love and regard ordinary pe...

Rantings

4.5

View

14

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother By Susan Owens

---

Title	:	Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Author	:	Susan Owens
ISBN	:	1902163788
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	192

---

This is the first book devoted to the personal collection of Queen Elizabeth The watercolors and drawings reflect the wide range of Queen Elizabeth s interests and her enthusiastic patronage of contemporary artists from the 1930s onwards....

Rantings

5.5

View

9

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Behind Palace Doors By Colin Burgess

---

Title	:	Behind Palace Doors
Author	:	Colin Burgess
ISBN	:	1844542742
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	288

---

She was described as the most dangerous woman in Europe by Adolf Hitler Noel Coward said people who spent any time with her were always reduced to gibbering worshippers she adored Margaret Thatcher and disliked Germans and she found the French comical and hankered for the old days of Empire and Commonwealth Above all, though, she was loved by the nation and in this a She was described as the most dangerous woman in Europe by Adolf Hitler Noel Coward said people who spent any time with her were always redu...

Rantings

1.5

View

1936

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Mrs Queen Takes the Train By William Kuhn

---

Title	:	Mrs Queen Takes the Train
Author	:	William Kuhn
ISBN	:	0062208306
Format	:	ebook
Number of Pages	:	384

---

An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn author of Reading Jackie Her Autobiography in Books Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts R An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn author of Reading Jackie Her Autobiography in Books Mrs Queen Takes the T...

Rantings

5.5

View

4838

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

The Bat Tattoo By Russell Hoban

---

Title	:	The Bat Tattoo
Author	:	Russell Hoban
ISBN	:	074756163X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	258

---

Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell s life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an 18th century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit to the museum, he encountered a woman called Sarah, who was compelled by the same bat What did it mean...

Rantings

3.5

View

89

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

Life in the Georgian Court By Catherine Curzon

---

Title	:	Life in the Georgian Court
Author	:	Catherine Curzon
ISBN	:	1473845513
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	224

---

As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the English Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history and in France, Revolution stalks the land.Peep behind the shutters of the opulent court of the doomed Bourbons, the absolutist powerhouse of Romanov Russia and the epoch defini As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the English Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe Houses rise and fal...

Rantings

2.5

View

622

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

The English Country House Party By Phillida Barstow

---

Title	:	The English Country House Party
Author	:	Phillida Barstow
ISBN	:	0750918497
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	224

---

During the golden age of English country house entertaining, from the death of Prince Albert in 1861 to the outbreak of World War I, invitations passed back and forth among members of the aristocracy Barstow brings to life the personalities and lifestyles of a vanished age in this carefully researched and illustrated study International royalty and the political figures During the golden age of English country house entertaining, from the death of Prince Albert in 1861 to the outbreak of World War I, invi...

Rantings

1.5

View

8

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers

The Taverner Novels By Mary Butts

---

Title	:	The Taverner Novels
Author	:	Mary Butts
ISBN	:	0929701186
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	374

---

These two novels, Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner out of print since originally published in 1928 and 1932 form what is almost certainly her masterpiece, a mythic yet contemporary tale of struggle against spiritual alienation

On the remote southwestern coast along the English Channel, a group of young bohemians have gathered, in retreat from the psycholo

These two novels, Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner out of print since originally published in 1928 an...

Rantings

3.5

View

33

---

Or You have Read online or Download Via Free Servers