Hotel du Lac

Anita Brookner

Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her...

The French Lesson

Hallie Rubenhold

"Compelling and operatic...Reads like a modern thriller". (SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of The Romanovs). "A dark and irresistible historical novel". (LUCY WORSLEY). It was a head, but one so bloodied, so rolled in filth, that it was scarcely recognisable but for its long red curls. It had been stuck ...

Encyclopedia Of Grannies

Eric Veille

Why do grannies always tell us to speak up? Why do they have creases on their faces? Are grannies flexible? How do you cheer up a sad granny? How old are grannies, actually? Eric Veillé explains it all in this offbeat book for the extended family to chuckle over--no matter what kind of grandma you have,...