In this “heavily immersive” (Kirkus) kaleidoscopic voyage through the past, present, and future of the United States, a young girl uncovers a secret society, a middle-aged man searches for his lost first love, a group of teens invent a role-playing game, protests threaten to topple the government, and an eccentric lawyer and his young Vietnamese...

We recently asked our Instagram followers to recommend any must-read books about the notorious Happy Valley set in Kenya. (The Happy Valley set was a group of hedonistic, largely British and Anglo-Irish aristocrats and adventurers who settled in the “Happy Valley” region in Kenya between the 1920s and the 1940s.

Paula Arnett would swear she knows everything there is to know about hers, that is, until she gets the call that the love of her life was involved in a freak accident. She doesn't think things could possibly get any worse.

Happy Valley is a 1939 novel by Australian writer Patrick White. It won the 1941 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. [1] White did not allow the novel to be republished in his lifetime. Not until 2012 would the book come back into print. …

Nov 30, 2022 · THE HAPPY VALLEY by Benjamin Harnett is a thought-provoking exploration of the past, the future, and the worlds we construct for ourselves. Check out what Nathaniel Drenner has to say in his book review of this indie literary novel.

The definitive story of the British in Kenya, from the explorer Joseph Thomson, whose exploits inspired King Solomon’s Mines, to the decadent Happy Valley set of the 1930s, the murder of Lord Erroll, and the Mau Mau revolt of the 1950s.

Australia’s only Nobel Laureate for Literature, Patrick White, published Happy Valley, his first novel (set in the Monaro district in south-east New South Wales), in 1939, just as WWII was about to begin.

This was my first book, a light-hearted history of British involvement in Kenya. I wrote it for people to read on the beach or at a game lodge while waiting for the animals to appear. It has been an Amazon No 1 best seller in Britain and (amazingly) France in several different categories.