Perhaps you'll find something on this page that appeals, but if not, then please look around - we're sure you'll find something to interest you - whether you're looking for an old favourite, or trying to catch up on those books you always meant to read but never quite got round to.
Nostalgia...
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 With pictures, personal stories and anecdotes, sometimes humorous and often moving, Postcards from the Country presents an evocative kaleidoscope of country life over the past half century. |
The Brandons features a host of unforgettable characters, from the beautiful Mrs Brandon to fierce Aunt Sissie in state in her four poster bed. Full of wonderful incidental detail about the 1930s world. |
A good laugh...
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'I thought it would be easy settling down as a respectable householder ,' writes Simon Sparrow. 'But my wife and I found complications. My old friend Dr. Grimsdyke - and the the appearance of Sir Lancelot Spratt. Oh, and there was another complication, too. But that's what Doctor & Son is all about... |
 Jimmy Conway always wanted to be famous - now he finds himself about to perform stand-up comedy in front of a live tv audience of millions. Only one problem, he's never performed anything before - ever... This is Your Life is another very funny novel from John O'Farrell |
A good read...
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 A brilliant historical novel which grips from start to finish. In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York, with a cargo of fleeing refugees... |
 A true modern classic with the First World War at its centre. "I can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit" Quentin Crewe in the Daily Mail
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Other people's lives...
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 For over fifteen years Dirk Bogarde lived in an old farm house in Provence. This third volume of his autobiograpy covers that period with the same dazzling wit, the same sharp eye for detail and the same gift for encapsulating character that distinguish the previous two. Bogarde is a natural writer: An Orderly Man is a delight to read. |
 The beautiful Langhorne sisters were mythologized in the plural long after their separate careers were a matter of history. Their great fame held sway first in the South, in Virginia, then across the rest of America and England. Riveting biography from James Fox
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Hugely popular since it was first published in 1925, this is the delightful story of a red-headed orphan which still enchants its readers today
This Puffin paperback from 1979 is a tie-in with a tv production of the book starring Kim Braden as the heroine. |
A swashbuckling tale of adventure. Matthew Morton went to sea in 1568 as the youngest hand aboard the Golden Way. He returned four years later with a reputation for mutiny and privateering and the nickname "Maroon Boy". |
