The Knight and the Serpent by John Richard Gabourel
This retelling of a legend of medieval Normandy intrigued me from the start, because a major scenario centres on my home…
The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century by Pierre Goubert
This book contains a wealth of otherwise hard-to-find facts about the often poverty-stricken and mostly unnoticed country folk in the diverse…
Penhaligon’s Pride by Terri Nixon
Even better than Book 1! It’s great to find Freya tidying up the old bookshop again, struggling to overcome her…
The Book that Made Your World by Vishal Mangalwadi
The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization, by Vishal Mangalwadi is a…
Fenny by Lettice Cooper
Ellen Fenwick, commonly known as Fenny or Elena, a burnt-out, single English teacher, jumps at the chance to become a…
Lion, by Saroo Brierley
An almost incredible but true story, told in a rather unemotional, matter-of-fact manner. Hardly old enough to know who he…
What Friends Are For, by J.B. Reynolds
Tracy is worn out from caring for her young daughter Hayley, the fruit of a drunken teenage binge. She’s also…
Penhaligon’s Attic by Terri Nixon
Barely recovered from almost drowning when she went out at night to welcome her dear father back from his fishing,…
Incendium by A. D. Swanston
Gripping from beginning to end, we follow the tense developments of the Papist struggle to overpower the Huguenots in France…
Is Jesus the Only Way? by Brian McLaren
The Only Way to What? A provocative start. Followed by a challenging summary: Jesus was not focused on saving sinners…
True to Her Faith by Harriet Gabourel
I bought this book mainly because of the subtitle: A Story of France in the Time of the Huguenots. That was…
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Another dip into the complete works of this great author. The plot of The Old Curiosity Shop is intricate, if…