Physical description; 340p. ; 19 cm. Subject; Pepys, Elizabeth 1640-1669 - Diaries - Fiction.

The Journal Of Mrs. Pepys - Portrait Of A Marriage

Literature & Fiction

George, Sara.

Contemporary

Review

Blessed Art Thou a Monk Swimming

Dunne, Miriam

In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her new boyfriend. The events of the next few days will lead both of them to reassess the shape of their lives.

Two moons

JOHNSTON, Jennifer

The Alchemist's Apprentice

Jeremy Dronfield

Bombay's story, told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded together by Suketu Mehta's own history of growing up in Bombay and returning to live there after a 21-year absence. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu looked at the city through their eyes, and in looking found the city within himself.

Maximum City : Bombay Lost and Found

Travel

Suketu Mehta

Asia

The Catastrophist

The catastrophist

Bennett, Ronan

A haunting work of historical fiction set amid the turmoil of the last days of the Roman Empire. From the blood-stained desert sands of Mesopotamia, to the barbaric wilderness and the dreaded painted tribesmen of northern Scotland, to the streets, courtyards and treacherous palaces of a small provincial capital called Londinium, this is the story of Marcus and Julia: two young lovers trying desperately to stay alive and find each other in the twilight days of the greatest empire the world has ever known.

Julia

Napier, William

Genre Fiction

George Hudson - the eponymous "Railway King" - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting #27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested succesfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising #5 million and bribing MP's along the way. But from his glory in 1845 he fell into disgrace, admitting corruption and selling land he did not own. He was eventually imprisoned in York Castle and died a broken man in 1871. His story provides an insight into 19th century politics and industrial progress, full of moral dilemmas and a testimony to the growth of the railways in Britain - a timely subject.

The Railway King

Beaumont, R.

Biographies & Memoirs

Queen Elisabeth I dies, son of Mary Queen of Scots raced to London to claim his throne as James I, resurgence of plague killed nearly 40,000 people, the first shipment of pepper arrived from the East Indies on the new spice route, Othello was just written, etc.

1603

Christopher, Lee

A great step-change in British history took place in 1603: the year that Elizabeth I died and the monarchy passed from the Tudors to the Stuarts, from the house of Henry VIII to James VI of Scotland who ruled as James I of England. It was also the year the Black Death returned, killing some 30,000 out of a population of only 4 million. This is the story of both the history-makers - Elizabeth, James, Robert Cecil, Shakespeare, Galileo - and of the common people; of turmoil in the Church, state-sponsored piracy and the establishment of new trade routes.

1603 : A Turning Point in British History

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