My tutor recommended I read this when he read the proposal for my end of module assignment. My story is about losing a parent and reevaluating that and other relationships, but it has a magical realism slant. The reason for recommending this book, he said, was that this is a very straight story that...
I'm planning out my 2020 reading challenge(s), and I decided I'm going to read all of Tracy Chevalier's books (the ones I haven't already read). To try and give myself a jump start, I thought I'd give these short stories a read. I started with Tracy Chevalier's and it wasn't bad (not great either, b...
This was a solid, slightly fussy, slightly old-fashioned book about an essentially orphaned ex-pat, his extraordinary judicial life, and his "return" to England (where he had never actually lived for any period of time). the "Old filth" of the title is a reference to this character as well as (mata...
bookshelves: hardback, lit-richer, paper-read, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, published-2007, under-500-ratings, cover-love, one-penny-wonder, autumn-2015, bedside Read from August 28 to September 30, 2015 Description: Jane Gardam's delightful short stories range from the Lake District to Do...
bookshelves: spring-2015, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, published-2014, radio-4x, lit-richer, under-500-ratings Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from March 05 to 06, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054c6grDescription (BBC): When this volume of short stories was published in M...
Two girls live next door to each other and share their toys, including an antique doll house. The girls grow up and leave their toys behind them, literally. They are packed up and forgotten for decades. The story follows the memories of dolls Miss Bossy and Cry, a Trojan solider, a china cat sugar b...
bookshelves: dorset, series, published-2009, play-dramatisation, lit-richer, hong-kong, period-piece, radio-4x Read from April 06 to 11, 2014 Description: The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his ful...
bookshelves: hong-kong, fraudio, published-2004, winter-20132014, period-piece, tbr-busting-2013, lit-richer, colonial-overlords, legal-courtcase Read from December 02, 2013 to January 02, 2014 From the description: Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer...
This is the sequel to Old Filth; the yin to his yang. It seems shorter and more direct, giving us Betty Feather's take on her long, mostly happy marriage to Edward. We learn much more about him, by seeing him through her eyes, and fall in love with both of them. Each of them had childhoods marred by...
I think I must be losing my tolerance for books written to a theme, rather than the author’s burning desire to tell a story. This one is about Raj orphans, those children of parents busily engaged on the work of the British Empire in India or various parts of the Far East. While their parents swanne...
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