If Omar Sherif had been a hugely overweight volkswagen owner and Julie Christie had been a dare devil car driver, then Doctor Zhivago might have been as funny, and romantic, as Gravity's Volkswagen
Verdon James, an Oxford man, has been a friend of the great and good for many years: his Holmesian intelligence and insightfulness coming to their rescue more times than he would care to remember.
Mardie Carew, seeking to discover the truth about her father’s death in 1898 and the missing years of her mother’s life, discovers her mother’s diary which reveals the highly respectable and conventional world of her grandparents and alongside it another side of the Victorian coin - spiritualism, religious mania and eroticism.
Publication date: 15 September 2008 · Price:£12.00
