Results for: books tagged ‘Generations’
Valley Song: Athol Fugard
A Warwickshire Testimony: April de Angelis
The past: the 'big house', the servant class, the close-knit family ties of a bygone generation. Rural idyll or claustrophobic hellhole? Desperate to get away from her family and from ... More
Dog Heart: Breyten Breytenbach
'What I want to write is the penetration, expansion, skirmishing, coupling, mixing, separation, regrouping of peoples and cultures - the glorious bastardization of men and women mutually shaped by sky ... More
Luminosity: Nick Stafford
The Mercer family's fortune started in 18th-century England, increased via South African gems in the 19th, and is managed on an ethical basis today. But when a modern Mercer begins ... More
Crabwalk: Gunter Grass
In this new novel Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. He explores the sinking of the ... More
The Dust Diaries: Owen Sheers
When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by ... More
Blood & Roses: Helen Castor
The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their ... More
Venus: Hanif Kureishi
With VENUS, Hanif Kureishi turns his piercing gaze onto the pains of old age. Maurice (Peter O’Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) are veteran stage actors whose slow, inevitable decline is ... More
The Story of Forgetting: Stefan Merrill Block
Inspired partly by the author’s own family history, The Story of Forgetting is a heartbreaking and inspiring debut novel. More
Isabella de'Medici: Caroline P. Murphy
The magnificent, alluring and ultimately tragic life of Isabella, the most brilliant woman of the Medici. More
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