Life

We're back in post-war England.

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant, 1885, is the tale of a young man "making good"; although the good is very much in the way-of-the-world rather than moral sense.

Aka There is a Tide.

The Body in the Library is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, first published in 1942, sez wiki, but don't read that, or indeed this, unless you want spoilers.

By E.

By Garth "Sabriel" Nix; which I enjoyed.

Or, The Odyssey by Homer, rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original, by Samuel Butler.

The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Dorothy L.

The Philosopher's Pupil is a 1983 novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch.

Part three: France and Home.

Part two: Italy.

My "August" summer break, from my contemporaneous notes, split for convenience into France, Italy and France.

Have His Carcase is a 1932 locked-room mystery by Dorothy L.

Inversions by Iain M.

A successor to Northern Lights and friends.

The finest sporting event of the year returns.

Wiki tells us that A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle.

By Ian Watson.

...money for God's sake.

By E.

By Tanith Lee.

Part one refers; but left you hanging as to when it would happen.

Alchemised is the debut fantasy novel by SenLinYu... dark fantasy, horror and gothic romance... follows the life of a former alchemist, Helena Marino, as she recovers her memories of a civil war... a reimagining of SenLinYu's popular fan fiction Manacled.…

As I said on Goodreads: Yet more generic fantasy not saved by a Chinese tinge.

A long weekend in Vienna, with M, Si and B.

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (2010) is a family memoir by British ceramicist Edmund de Waal... the story of his family, the Ephrussi, once a very wealthy European Jewish banking dynasty, centred in Odessa, Vienna and Paris, and peers of…

Is Light, obvs.

Being an accout of my trip down to the Chamonix valley, what I did there with E, and my getting back.

By Philip "Dark" Pullman.

Another one from childhood, along with Pavane.

I enjoyed this; I would consider it as lightweight easy-reading fluff, slightly redeemed by name-dropping Italian painters in a way that made me more interested in seeing their works.