There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of...
Manners and customs
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
Calista Langley operates an exclusive “introduction” agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her...
- Author:Jarman, Mark AnthonySummary:
Mark Anthony Jarman is one of Canada’s most original and compelling writers of short fiction. My White Planet is his latest collection of fourteen new stories, many of which have previously won or been short-listed for literary magazine...
- Author:MacKay, Patricia JoySummary:
In 1964, Patricia MacKay immigrated to Canada from England in search of the wild-open lands and cowboy culture that captivated her as a child. In the 1960s, the Wild West was still alive and kicking in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, although it...
- Author:Matthews, MimiSummary:
A PROUD BEAUTY... Society beauty Sylvia Stafford is far too pragmatic to pine. When the tragic death of her gamester father leaves her destitute and alone, she finds work as a governess in a merchant’s household in Cheapside. Isolated...
- Author:Ridley, EricaSummary:
Enjoy the witty, emotional second book in U.S.A. Today bestselling author Erica Ridley’s new Dukes of War regency romance series! Captain Xavier Grey’s body is back amongst the beau monde, but his mind cannot break free from the horrors...
- Author:THOMAS, AtholSummary:
True stories of the Kimberley region in the outback of Western Australia.