Added by: il.crystal.li | Karma: 54.97 | Fiction literature | 25 October 2015
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of ‘traditional build’, is well-known to millions across the world through the best-selling No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Those who have been following her exploits in five previously published novels will soon be able to savour the next instalment, in which, as usual, circumstances are never as straightforward as they seem and events take a more than unexpected turn. Precious Ramotswe, is now married to Mr J.L.B.
Reginald Hill - An April Shroud After seeing Inspector Pascoe off on his honeymoon with a few ill-chosen words, Superintendent Andy Dalziel soon runs into trouble and water on his own solitary holiday. Rescued by a bunch of somewhat cheerful mourners, he accompanies them back to their rundown mansion to dry off.
Into the Tub Young children will have fun getting into - and out of - the tub with Sadie. A precocious mouse with a mind of her own, Sadie is gently coaxed into a bath and later into bed by her patient mommy. Through catchy rhymes and cheerful verse, Sadie soon learns that listening to Mommy makes things turn out right.
Johnnie was only the runt of the litter, a little peppermint pig. He'd cost Mother a shilling, but somehow his great naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll and Theo cheerful, even though it was one of the most difficult years of their lives.
Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or "contraband." His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace.