Parson Harding's Daughter

Parson Harding's Daughter
Author: Joanna Trollope
Publisher:
Total Pages: 285
Release: 1981
Genre:
ISBN:

Caroline Harvey is the youngest of Parson Harding's five plain children. Her father's sudden death breaks up the family's even way of life and, in despair she accepts an offer of marriage from Johnny Gates and moves to India. Life in India is not what she expects and nor is Johnny, but she has friends in high places and all in the end is resolved.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide
Author: Nick Rennison
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1408103540

Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves. This greatly expanded edition includes the latest contemporary authors and landmark novels, an expanded non-fiction section, a timeline setting historical events against literary milestones, prize-winner and book club lists. An accessible and easy-to-read guide that no serious book lover should be without. "The essential guide to the wild uncharted world of contemporary and 20th century writing." Robert McCrum, The Observer

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
Author: Christopher Riches
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1431
Release: 2015-01-29
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 019251850X

Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.