Hardcover and dust jacket, as pictured; small tear on dust jacket edge (crft)

Collecting: The Passionate Pastime

Johnston, Susanna

Wells, Susanna

Reference

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Picnic Papers

Tennant, Anne (editors)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Hutchinson

Five Rehearsals (Abacus Books)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

SPHERE

Villa In Tuscany

Travel

Travel Writing

Gibson Square Books Ltd

This is the nostalgic sun-filled story of a beautiful, lifelong friendship of laughter, writers and aristocrats that centred around the Villa Marchio near Lucca, Tuscany. Here John Fleming and Hugh Honour, both world-famous art historians and the last great British eccentrics, had created the perfect life for themselves. They first met Susanna Johnston, their quirky neighbour-to-be, at Oris Origo's villa set on a rocky promontory in Lerici when we Susanna was down and out looking for a job as a teenager. They adopted her much like a stray cat. Why don't you stay on at Lerici and read for the blind last lover of Henry James, they suggested...? A life of laughter followed.

A Villa in Tuscany: Writers, Aristocrats and a Life with Hugh Honour and John Fleming

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Gibson Square

Late Youth: An Anthology Celebrating the Joys of Being Over Fifty

Gray is the new black, 20 is the new 30, and 50 can be just the beginning - so say the more than 70 contributors to this celebration of aging gracefully, if not so quietly. Upbeat and tongue-in-cheek, each fugue on getting older tells it like it is in all of its glory and with all of its challenges. The pithy comments come from people such as Lady Colin Campbell and Dame Edna Everage and are sure to bring a wry smile of recognition to anyone who is "of a certain age."

Parenting & Relationships

Arcadia Books Ltd

A roaring romp through the idiosyncratic nature of British country life, this novel-populated with a cast of eccentrics in the traditional British mold-follows the fish-out-of-water story of Muriel, a 50-something woman jaded by city life, who inherits an Elizabethan manor from a man to whom she is vaguely related. Dogged by her London acquaintances-including a worthless son and daughter-in-law, a drunkard lover, and Princess Matilda, a fictional daughter of George VI and the Queen Mother-upon her move, Muriel must endure the chaos of country life in hopes of finding her own personal happy ending.

Muriel Pulls it Off: An Unofficial Guide to Country Manners

Humor & Satire

This roman a clef revolves around Victoria, barely twenty, who finds herself acting as amanuensis to Laurence, an elderly man of letters, now blind, who lives in a ravishing house by the sea in northern Italy. Soon after her arrival, she indulges in a heady night of passion with Edgar, a youthful Englishman. Edgar's mother, Lettice, who is jealous and suspicious of Victoria's prettiness and her ability to amuse Lettice's intellectual friends, decides to ensure that Victoria's new life back in England is a misery. Darkly funny and deeply insightful, Lettice &amp; Victoria is not just a love story with a fanciful and flawed female protagonist, but a wonderful portrait of 1950s English society.

Lettice & Victoria

Arcadia Books

Rescuing My Father & Other Stories

Zuleika

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