The Second Mrs. Gioconda

E.L. Konigsburg

Children's Books

Macmillan London Limited

1st edition Macmillan 1981 hardcover near fine condition book in near fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

An Open Book

Biographies & Memoirs

Huston, John

Arts & Literature

Thirsty work: Ten years of Heineken advertising

Business & Money

MAYLE, PETER

Marketing & Sales

DEAD ON CUE

MORICE, Anne.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Playing With Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island

Travel

James Hamilton-Paterson

Asia

The Healing Brain: A Radical New Approach to Health Care

Ornstein, Robert

Sobel, David

Health, Fitness & Dieting

[Read by Suzanne Toren]Both riveting and reflective, this is a story that brings to light the talent that has made Alice Hoffman an acclaimed bestselling author.Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha's Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion. Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter's soul; a family torn apart by a wife's fears and a husband's unrealized desires; and the high school girl who comes to Martha's Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption.

Illumination night

Literature & Fiction

ALICE HOFFMAN

Contemporary

Fair and Tender Ladies is a novel by Lee Smith published in 1988. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year.[1] Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel consisting entirely of letters written by its protagonist, Ivy Rowe, to numerous recipients from her childhood until her old age. It is set mostly in the Blue Ridge Mountains and covers events from shortly before World War I until the Vietnam era. The novel garnered much critical acclaim and has been adapted for the stage, including a musical version for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. (Wikipedia)

Fair and Tender Ladies

Lee Smith

Widow Sheila Malory has been looking forward to her stay at the Bodleian Library in Oxford as a chance to research wartime women writers and catch up with old friends from her college years, the one "purely happy" time in her whole life. Her relaxing idyll is interrupted when a librarian, Gwen Richmond, is crushed to death beneath collapsed bookshelves. After the "accident" proves to be murder, Mrs. Malory's godson Tony, who also works in the library, asks her to help investigate. Gwen was manipulative and unpleasant, so there are no shortage of suspects. The dead woman's World War II diary reveal dreadful truths that may lead to the killer; they will also force Mrs. Malory to revisit the past in a new and colder light. The Cruellest Month is the second of Hazel Holt's Mrs. Malory mysteries.

The Cruellest Month

HOLT, Hazel

Mystery

WIRELESS

O'Connell, Jack

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Macmillan London Limited publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Macmillan London Limited