About Time...Growing Old Disgracefully
Irma Kurtz
Thoughtful and funny a journey through the third age to gain a perspective on ageing
The Red Velvet Turnshoe
Cassandra Clark
1383 Famine, Plague & Flood ravage England & Europe, in a Yorkshire Abbey the fiesty and intrepid nun Hildergard is given a task that will stretch her skills and her bravery, she must travel to Italy to secure a priceless relic
Becoming Queen
Kate Williams
The story of Queen Victoria
Dreamers of the Day
Mary Doria Russell
Agnes a spinster comes into money & sets off to explore Egypt finding herself and becoming an accidental witness to history
The Search for Spirituality
Ursula King
A search for meaning and fulfilment on different cultures
The Time Paradox
Philip Zimbardo & John Boyd
How time shapes our lives
Aphrodite's Workshop for Reluctant Lovers
Marika Cobbold
An earthbound high priestess is having a crisis .... are the goddesses going to do something about it?
A Brief History of Henry VIII
Derek Wilson
A masterful biography that seperates Myth from Fact
My Stroke of Luck
Kirk Douglas
His own remarkable moving story
Shadow Cild
Libby Purvis
Grief takes everyone differently, after the sudden death of their only child Maria find support with women friends in their quiet country village. Whilst Tom's silent rage is manifest in disputes with the Inland Revenue till Julia turns up demanding to see their son
Adventures on the High Teas
Stuart Maconie
Exploring the meaning of the term 'Middle England' a refreshhing travelogue of an England fast disappearing
The Lady and the Poet
Maeve Haran
Ann More meets John Donne in Eliabethan England
The Genious and the Goddess
Jefferey Meyers
Documents the turbulent years of the marrage between Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
The Lost Mona
R A Scotti
The gripping tale of the 1911 theft and eventual return of the Mona Lisa
The Reserve
Russell Banks
July 1936 Fascism looms over Europe, moneyed New Yorkers gather at the Reserve. Money and privilige meets love and madness, surprises come that are truly shocking
Garden Spells
Sarah Addison
In a mysterious walled garden in North Carolina that blooms each year there are magical secrets
Mutiny On The Bounty
John Boyne
11787 John Jacob Turnstile a 14 yr old Portsmouth pickpocket finds himself aboard the Tahiti bound Bounty as personal valet to it's captain
Shakespear's Wife
Germaine Greer
Though little is known about Ann Hathaway the book is an indulging, entertaining speculation of her life with Will
A Small Part of History
Peggy Elliott
The story of the women who helped to forge the American dream
Ribbon of Moonlight
Margaret Kaine
Set in the 50's when memories of war gave way to hopes of a better future the story follows Polly from Staffordshire to a new life in Paris
The Modern Grandparent's Guide
Jackie Highe
All you need to know to be a 21 century Grandparent
The Forgotten Garden
Kate Moreton
A haunting story of the search for identity that begins in Australia and ends in Cornwall
My Father's Roses
Nancy Koliner
An engrossing family memoir, life in Bohemia at the end of the 19 century, through Worls War I, escape to England in 1939 from the Prague Ghetto, nazism and concentration camps
The 60's Unplugged
Gerard DeGroot
A kaleidoscopic history of a disorganised decade
The Really Useful Grandparent's Book
Eloe Gordon & Tony Lacey
Kick start your imagination for some terrific ways to connect with your grandkids
Queens Consort
Lisa Hilton
From Matilda of Flanders to Elizabeth of York a history of England's Medieval Queens and how they helped shape a Nation
Go Slow England
Alistair Sawday
Suggests places to stay, places to visit all at a slow pace offerring a balm for the soul from beautiful England
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Kevin Lionel Shriver
Thought provoking angst for every parent
recommended reading by Janet Princess Purple Petunia
The Woman Writer
Sylvia Kent
An account of Britain's oldest writing society dedicated to women's writing through it's 116 year exhistence
Sylvia Kent explores the lives of some of the Society's most famous members