23-08-2004, 02:13 PM
The Mapmakers Wife by Robert Whitaker
Epic romance, Isable Grameson crossed the continent of South America in search of her missing husband, Jean Godin who had arrived from France in 1735 as part of a daring decade long mission to measure the earth. The pair remained separated by the Amazon and tangled international politics for more than 20 yrs. A potent mix of love and science....
Lilla's Feast: A story of love, war and a passion for food by Frances Osborne
Frances Osborne - one of identical twins was born in Colonial China in 1882, and in a life spanning more than 100 yrs - not to mention three husbands - she was witness to some extraordinary events. Osborne's quest to unearth her life story was inspired by a wondrous cookery book that Lilla wrote while she was starving in a Japanese internment camp. A rapturous fusion of personal history and tales of Empire and the far East.
The rare and the beautiful: The lives of the Garman sister by Cressida Connolly
One married scandalous poet Roy Campbell and had an affair with Bloomsbury Vita Sackville, another was the great love of sculptor Jacob Epstein, whose first wife shot her with a pistol, and a third had passionate relationships with Laurie Lee and Lucian Freud. The three sisters, Kathleen, mary and Lorna were muses, lovers and mothers.
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
True story of the Red Queen a ten yr old girl plucked from obscurity in 18th-century Korea to wed the country's Crown Prince.
These books are for the more serious reader....:thumbs: might not appeal to all...
Epic romance, Isable Grameson crossed the continent of South America in search of her missing husband, Jean Godin who had arrived from France in 1735 as part of a daring decade long mission to measure the earth. The pair remained separated by the Amazon and tangled international politics for more than 20 yrs. A potent mix of love and science....
Lilla's Feast: A story of love, war and a passion for food by Frances Osborne
Frances Osborne - one of identical twins was born in Colonial China in 1882, and in a life spanning more than 100 yrs - not to mention three husbands - she was witness to some extraordinary events. Osborne's quest to unearth her life story was inspired by a wondrous cookery book that Lilla wrote while she was starving in a Japanese internment camp. A rapturous fusion of personal history and tales of Empire and the far East.
The rare and the beautiful: The lives of the Garman sister by Cressida Connolly
One married scandalous poet Roy Campbell and had an affair with Bloomsbury Vita Sackville, another was the great love of sculptor Jacob Epstein, whose first wife shot her with a pistol, and a third had passionate relationships with Laurie Lee and Lucian Freud. The three sisters, Kathleen, mary and Lorna were muses, lovers and mothers.
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
True story of the Red Queen a ten yr old girl plucked from obscurity in 18th-century Korea to wed the country's Crown Prince.
These books are for the more serious reader....:thumbs: might not appeal to all...