"In Wetherby's world, Victoria was still on the throne, a mass was still said in Latin and the horrors of contemporay syntax - contractions, split infinitives, hanging participles - held no dominion."
From The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale.
R. K. Narayan: The Painter of Signs
~~~ For discussion from 20th. March
John Lanchester: The Debt to Pleasure
~~~ For discussion from 24th. April
Robyn Scott: Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Susan Hill: Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home
Joyce Dennys: Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942 (Bloomsbury Group)
Alexander McCall Smith: The Lost Art of Gratitude: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Claire Harman: Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Alexander McCall Smith: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Daniel Barenboim: Everything Is Connected: The Power Of Music
Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mollie Panter-Downes: Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
Duchess of Devonshire : Counting My Chickens: And Other Home Thoughts
David Hamilton: The Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland
Paul Torday: The Irresistible Inheritance Of Wilberforce: A Novel in Four Vintages
Chloe Schama: Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal
Matt McAllester: Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen
Jean Baggott: The Girl on the Wall: One Life's Rich Tapestry
Greg Grandin: Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Patricia Duncker: The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge
Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier (Virago Modern Classics)
Anthony Powell: The Acceptance World: Vol 3 (Dance to the Music of Time 03)
Alexander McCall Smith: The Right Attitude to Rain (Sunday Philosophy Club)
Alexander McCall Smith: The Careful Use of Compliments (Sunday Philosophy Club)
Anthony Powell: A Buyer's Market: Vol 2 (Dance to the Music of Time 02)
Anthony Powell: A Question of Upbringing (Dance to the Music of Time 01)
Tove Jansson: A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson
Alexander McCall Smith: The World According to Bertie (44 Scotland Street)
Daphne Du Maurier: The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories
Juliet Nicolson: The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911