Blogs in December 2023

House of Gold 2nd December 2023

A sweeping novel that follows various members of a wealthy Jewish family (loosely based on the Rothschilds) before and during the First World War.

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I, Mona Lisa 25th March 2022

In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power,...

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The House at Tyneford 1st January 1970

This book is previously titled the Novel in the Viola. In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows...

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Mr Rosenbulm’s List 1st January 1970

Jack and Sadie Rosenblum come to England from Germany in the 1930s. He wants to integrate and follows the advice in the leaflet he receives on arrival. Sadie, however, does not want to integrate and misses her life in...

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The Novel in the Viola 1st January 1970

This book starts off with Elise in her Austrian days, in Vienna, having a lovely time in the early thirties. Swiftly the story picks up at Tyneford House, a mansion on the south coast of Englan, where she is...

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