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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

November 19, 2021

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club kept appearing on various “recommended for you” lists, but I initially resisted buying it as it sounded rather insipid, like those mystery novels where the amateur sleuth’s cat is a major character. In Richard Osman’s novel, four residents of a posh British retirement ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: British Mystery, British novels, Mystery novel

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

August 4, 2020

The Jane Austen Society

Post-war England In 1945, the tiny village of Chawton is coping with the after effects of WWII. Its most famous resident, Jane Austen, who lived in an estate cottage belonging to her brother Edward Knight, is a faint and increasingly diminishing presence. Recognizing the important of the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British history, British novels, Chawton House, Jane Auten, World War II

Transcription by Kate Atkinson 

February 14, 2019

Transcription by Kate Atkinson

Transcription by Kate Atkinson The shady and shadowy world of WWII espionage is the subject of the latest Atkinson novel. Like many of her novels, the plot does not unfold chronologically but rather skips back and forth between three pivotal years (1940, 1950, 1981) in the life of Juliet ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British novels, World War II

How Hard Can It Be?

July 9, 2018

How Hard Can It Be?

How Hard Can It Be? by Allison Pearson One of my favorite novels of 2003 and maybe the entire decade was I Don’t Know How She Does It featuring working mom Kate Reddy who battles sexism and sleep deprivation while climbing the corporate ladder at a London hedge fund. Flash forward seven years, ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: Beach reading, British novels

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

May 8, 2018

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

I’ve been looking for a juicy fiction read and finally found it! Set in 1893, The Essex Serpent is a Dickens-esque story of recently widowed Cora Seaborne who leaves London for the wilds of Essex in search of fossils and freedom. What she finds is family, friendship, and a mythical beast. The ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British novels, historical fiction

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

August 29, 2017

Diary of a Provincial Lady

Published in 1930, Diary of a Provincial Lady is the gently satiric fictional diary of an upper-middle-class lady living in a Devonshire village. In a witty and self-deprecating tone, the Provincial Lady (PL) records her daily struggles to keep her little household afloat and her sanity intact. PL ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British novels

The Novels of Barbara Pym

September 5, 2013

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

The Novels of Barbara Pym  2013 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of my favorite British authors Barbara Pym. So by way of celebration, I reread a handful of her charming novels. Pym was a modestly successful author of six novels when in 1963 her longtime publisher rejected her ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: Barbara Pym, British novels

Last Friends by Jane Gardam

July 31, 2013

Last Friends by Jane Gardam

Last Friends by Jane Gardam In the final novel in the Old Filth trilogy, Jane Gardam spotlights Terence Veneering, a pivotal but shadowy character in the story of Sir Edward Feathers and his wife Betty, who were the subjects of the previous novels, Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British novels, Hong Kong, Jane Gardam, Old Filth, Sir Edward Feathers

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

July 20, 2013

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Don’t you wonder what might have happened if you had married another, spoken sooner, or taken a different route home?   Ursula Todd, the protagonist of Kate Atkinson’s new novel Life after Life, experiences all of these options for as Ursula lives, she ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British novels, Kate Atkinson, World War II

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

September 14, 2010

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson I love an English village, or rather I love the English village as it is portrayed in certain novels. Whether such a place exists beyond the pages of books by Jane Austen, Barbara Pym, or Agatha Christie, I’m not sure, but the fictional version is ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British novels, English Village Life, Helen Simonson, Jane Austen

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