Lark Writes...on books and life

Title & Author:  The Bachelor  by Stella Gibbons Why I bought it:  I loved  Cold Comfort Farm   so much I wanted to read more of Gib...

Author:  Aaron Elkins Title:  A Long Time Coming First line:  "My name is Val Caruso and I'm a curator at the Metropol...

I can't remember where I first heard about Angela Thirkell, but it was on someone's blog several years ago. And not just one pers...

"I was only a girl, alone among the enemy. What could I do?" Irene Gut was only seventeen when Poland was invaded by Ge...

Title: Katalin Street Author:  Magda Szabo Summary:  In prewar Budapest, the Elekes, Held and Biro families live side by side on graciou...

The Main Ingredients:          *   Summertime, 1944, in Door County, Wisconsin         * a cherry orchard in need of laborers         ...

"Somebody's living in this house. I heard them earlier. Whispering. When I turned round there was no one there. But there was stil...

During World War II, Turkey 'teemed with spies defectors, diplomats, assassins, journalists, and a future pope.' Here are a few ...

Author: Young, Sara Title: My Enemy's Cradle I knew about the Lebensborn and the Nazis' plan to create a 'Master Race...

"I've made a friend through paper and pens and envelopes and postage.  A true friend!" I love  epistolary  fiction. The...

The Girl in the Green Sweater by Krystyna Chiger Krystyna Chiger is just a child when Poland is overrun, first by the Russians, then ...

The Jewish ghetto, the Wieliczka salt mine, concentration camps, death camps, the gas chamber, a death march ... Birkenau, Auschwitz, Be...