Tuesday, January 6, 2009

January reading list;


The Purple Plain by H.E.Bates; Is a classic first printed in 1947

Shy flocks of small banana green parrots had begun to come back to the pipul trees about the......


The Seeker a Novel written by Sudhir Kakar; It is 1925 and India's struggle for independence is in disarray.


Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict; Long buried secrets and lies rise again as murder shatters a small town....


Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller; From where rises the high tide of desire, of expectation, of an obsession with sheer being defiant of pain, of the treadmill of enslavement and injustice, of the massacres that are history? Georg Steiner


A Game with sharpened Knives by Neil Belton; First published in 2005; In 1941, murder is in the air.... 'An astonishing book' The Times


Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital; Love can take you to the darkest places....



Julia Margaret Cameron by Joanne Lukitsh; J.M.Cameron is amongst the pre-eminent artistic photographers of the nineteenth century.

This is a book full of wonderful sepia photos recommended to all lovers of photography.


Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden; Great reading and wonderful photos by Steven Wooster.

3 comments:

Gill - That British Woman said...

you are going to be busy, aren't you?

I have mentioned your blog in a post I am doing on my blog on Friday (9th)

Gill in Canada

Maria said...

You have a very long reading list! Great!
Could your play with words be "adorable Dora"?

Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardens said...

Gill, thank you and I will be there.

Maria, everything is ad'ora with Dora! Fun..fun..