England Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/england/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:15:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg England Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/england/ 32 32 38398750 Katabasis by R.F. Kuang https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:39:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19377 I’ve read and enjoyed both of R.F. Kuang’s adult novels (Babel, Yellowface) so was looking forward to her latest, Katabasis. A Greek word meaning “going down or descending” this chunky novel is about Alice Law, an American student getting her graduate degree in Magick from Cambridge. The title refers to Alice’s descent into Hell to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/feed/ 3 19377 The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-brilliant-life-of-eudora-honeysett/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-brilliant-life-of-eudora-honeysett/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:05:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18278 I’m moving away from terror today with The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett. Eudora is 85 years old, has never married, and lives quietly in her London rowhouse. She’s in reasonable health, but is tired of the idiocy of the modern world and afraid that because she has no family she’s going to spend her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-brilliant-life-of-eudora-honeysett/feed/ 0 18278 Is She Really Going Out With Him? https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:12:01 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19104 Because we’re all still recovering from any number of financial upheavals, be it taxes or the stock market I’m sticking with easy reading that pays off. Is She Really Going Out With Him? has a very similar premise to Monday’s book—a single woman at a media company forced out of her professional comfort zone in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/feed/ 4 19104 The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/the-wildes-a-novel-in-five-acts/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/the-wildes-a-novel-in-five-acts/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:33:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19088 Coming from a family where wit (largely sarcasm, but still) is a love language I’ve always been intrigued by Oscar Wilde. I’ve read his works, seen movie adaptations of his plays, and even read about his tumultuous and ultimately tragic life. Now comes The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard, an inventive […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/the-wildes-a-novel-in-five-acts/feed/ 0 19088 Behind the Scenes at the Museum https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:16:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18971 Ruby Lennox has no intention of waiting to be noticed. She is the front and center, the axis in the familial wheel that is Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum. The novel begins with her announcing her own conception when her father drunkenly impregnates her mother. From this instant on we journey with […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/feed/ 0 18971 Instructions for a Heatwave https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/instructions-for-a-heatwave/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/instructions-for-a-heatwave/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:13:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18911 In 1976 England was in the midst of a terrible drought and heat wave. It’s an inauspicious and unexpected time for a happily married, retired man to go missing, but Robert does, taking only his keys and his passport. His wife Gretta is left in a frazzled state and his adult children have all been […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/instructions-for-a-heatwave/feed/ 0 18911 The Switch by Beth O’Leary https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/the-switch-by-beth-oleary/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/the-switch-by-beth-oleary/#respond Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:28:50 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18728 When Leena and her grandmother Eileen both find themselves in desperate need of a change they come to an unusual decision in Beth O’Leary’s The Switch. Each move into the others’ home. For Leena this means leaving her London flat and two roommates and heading to a cottage an hour away. For Eileen, it’s leaving […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/the-switch-by-beth-oleary/feed/ 0 18728 Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/mrs-quinns-rise-to-fame/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/mrs-quinns-rise-to-fame/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:20:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18382 The trend of lighter reading has been working for me so I thought I’d wrap up April with one more charming novel. Mainly because it combined two things I really love: a favorite TV show and sumptuous descriptions of baking. The novel is Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame and is about Jenny, a 77-year-old British […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/mrs-quinns-rise-to-fame/feed/ 4 18382 Piglet: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/piglet-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/piglet-a-novel/#respond Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:54:37 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18309 When a young woman’s fiancé reveals a significant betrayal two weeks before their wedding she’s left reeling. How she deals with this news and its impact on her life in this compressed timeline are the meat of Piglet, a contemporary debut novel that probes the issues around the long-term impact of childhood experiences and the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/piglet-a-novel/feed/ 0 18309 The English Experience https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/08/the-english-experience/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/08/the-english-experience/#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2023 07:31:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17815 I leaned into dark fiction last week so thought I’d give everyone a break and go light with the latest novel in a series I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. The English Experience is the third novel by Julie Schumacher chronicling the misadventures of hapless English professor, Jay Fitger. Fitger is the department head at the aptly named […]

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