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Falling B Format by Howard Elizabeth Jane
Category: Fiction
Henry Kent has been looking for someone. Anyone will do, as long as she is a woman, preferably with some money. But when writer Daisy Langrish buys a cottage close by he arouses her agent's suspicions, who discovers a chilling secret.
Getting it Right by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Cazelet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Getting It Right, a a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to get it right. Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award Gavin - a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End - is, at thirty-one ...Show more
Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A delightful companion for all those with a love for gardens and for the very best garden writing. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1 ...Show more
Love All by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction
A novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love.
Love All by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction
This is a beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. There is Jack Curtis a self-made millionaire who has bought and ...Show more
Love All by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction
The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days of childhood are long past. Now she must deal with the emotions of an adult world ...Meanwhile in Melton, in the West Country, Jack Curtis - a self-made millionaire - has employed Persephon ...Show more
Marking Time (#2 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction | Series: Cazalet Chronicles
Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war ...The sunlit days of childish games and familyn meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets takes up the ...Show more
Marking Time (#2 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction | Series: Cazalet Chronicles Ser.
Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.Home Place, Sussex, 1939. As the shadows of the Second World War roll in, banishing the sunlit days of childish games and trips to the coast, a new generation of Cazalets take up t ...Show more
Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of the Cazelet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's comes Mr Wrong, a collection of short stories. In this dazzling short story collection, including Mr Wrong, The Devoted and Three Miles Up, master storyteller, Elizabeth Jane Howard, illustrates her renowned style and d ...Show more
Odd Girl Out by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction
Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving. With her elegant prose the author traces the web of lo ...Show more
Slipstream: A Memoir by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Biography Memoir
In this candid and revealing memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard looks back over the course of her eventful life. She has been married three times - firstly to Peter Scott, the naturalist and son of Captain Scott, and most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis. It was Amis' son by another marriage, Mart ...Show more