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College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, has already excited the interest of publishers.
...23) Paradise lost
"Your destiny is clear: great evil, great fortune, great love... and great danger."
Taught the delicate art of lace-making during her orphanage childhood, Heather Blackstone manages to earn her living in a Nottingham factory, but the legend of her ancestry haunts her dreams. When a gypsy fortune teller predicts a journey to Northumberland, Heather knows that her destiny is clear: she must find a way to reclaim the castle that bears her family
..."Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions..." Thus begins Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club building itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal, practicing elocution and jostling
...29) The Hiding Place
In the coronation summer of 1838, seventeen-year-old Fanny Harcourt goes to London to stay with her close friend Emily Dacre for the festivities. The young Victoria, scarcely older than Fanny herself, is to assume the throne of England.
Enjoying the pomp and pageantry, the swelling crowds of commoners and snobs, Fanny soon catches the eye of a handsome novelist. Infatuations, matchmaking hazards, and romantic misunderstandings enhance the carnival
...Grandes Dames of film and stage Trixie and Evangeline must dust off their amateur sleuthing skills in another delightfully witty mystery from Marian Babson.
Trixie and Evangeline have always accepted that it might occasionally be necessary to Suffer for their Art-but they draw the line at dying for it. Fearlessly, they face incompetence, irritation, and boredom as they scour the pub theatres and eccentric venues of the London fringe in
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