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In the Dark
Deborah Moggach
Chatto & Windus, 2007
Historical, domestic and sexy like Moggach?s best-selling Tulip Fever , this is a tantalizing, page-turning story set in South London?s dark and dirty streets during WWI. 1916: Pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby-genteel South London boarding house while her husband is off at the War. There?s Ralph, her fourteen-year old son, and Winnie the ...
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Unreliable Memoirs
Clive James
Chatto & Windus, 1980
Don't read this in a public place!
This would have to be the best offering from Clive James that I have read. His acerbic wit makes for great reading. I found this text on a bookshelf in a beach holiday house and was immediately captivated. I lost count of the amount of times that I not only laughed ...
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Samuel Johnson
W.Jackson Bate
Chatto and Windus, 1978
The most moving and inspiring biography I have ever read.
I read this book over 20 years ago. It was my introduction to Samuel Johnson. The book inspired my deep devotion to Johnsonia. The subject, I now know, is fascinating; for over two centuries biographies of Johnson have never been out of print. But this book caught ...
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French Women For All Seasons: More Secrets, More Pleasures
Mireille Guiliano
Chatto & Windus, 2006
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Our Horses in Egypt
Rosalind Belben
Chatto & Windus, 2007
Philomena, fat and lazy when she is requisitioned from an English field at the start of the First World War, sails for Egypt with the territorial regiment, the Dorset Yeomanry. She serves faithfully, charging the dervishes in the Western Desert and enduring the privations of Allenby?s great campaign in Palestine. She recovers from wounds to ...
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Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Nicholas Davies
Chatto & Windus, 2008
Fine study of the media
Author and journalist Nick Davies has written one of the best exposés of the media. The book started when he saw that the government's lies about Iraqi WMD became widely accepted as true because too many in his profession spread them uncritically. As he writes, ...
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Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives. by Carolyn Steel
Carolyn Steel
Chatto & Windus, 2008
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Miss Chopsticks
Xinran
Chatto & Windus, 2007
'A handful of chopsticks and no roofbeam'
I read this novel in one sitting last night: I could not put it down. Xinran has written a delightful novel about three sisters from rural China who make their own lives in Nanjing.
Sisters Three, Five and Six may not have much formal education, but they know ...
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The Risk of Darkness
Susan Hill
Chatto & Windus, 2006
Love British mystery?
This is the third book by Susan Hill that I have bought and read. While Simon may not be everyone's idea of a policeman, he is complicated,deep, and interesting. His family background and interaction with them are interesting and complex. This book finishes the story ...
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Black and Blue
Anna Quindlen
Chatto & Windus, 1998
Black and Blue with flying colors
Anna Quindlen - a literary treasure of our time.
The book tells the story of an abused woman who has had enough and runs away from her husband, a police officer. She takes her son with her. She coincidentally finds an organization that helps women like herself ...
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Song & Dance
John Fuller
Chatto & Windus, 2008
Jealous curses and hate poems, love lyrics and erotic dances: John Fuller has always written light verse. Here is a boisterous and engaging collection, fizzing with intelligence and wit from one of the most inventive and graceful poets.
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Alfred Kinsey: A Life - Sex the Measure of All Things
Edward Gathorne-Hardy
Chatto & Windus, 1998
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The Road Home
Rose Tremain
Chatto & Windus, 2007
Moving and inspirational...loved it
Lev is a 42 year old widower from some unnamed Eastern European country who sets off in a long bus ride to London where he hopes to escape the still vivid memories of his deceased wife and the hopelessness of the no-job, no-future environment of his homeland. He ...
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Enemies of God
Christina Larner
Chatto and Windus, 1981
Enemies of God.
Christina Larner has written and excellent and readable book about the horrors of the witch hunt in Scotland. "Enemies of God" is very informative and well organized in its approach to the witch hunts in Scotland. Her book discusses everything from the start of, and ...
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd
Chatto & Windus, 2008
Peter Ackroyd?s imagination dazzles in this brilliant novel written in the voice of Victor Frankenstein himself. Mary Shelley and Shelley are characters in the novel. It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window ...
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