Joanne Harris
2) Broken light
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bernie Moon, tired, menopausal, and feeling invisible, is shocked when a murder in a local park unlocks childhood memories that reveal a talent that she has hidden all her adult life.
4) Honeycomb
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The beauty of stories; you never know where they will take you. Full of dreams and nightmares, Honeycomb is an entrancing mosaic novel of original fairy tales from bestselling author Joanne M. Harris and legendary artist Charles Vess in a collaboration that's been years in the making. The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife; the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions; the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After thirty years at St. Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, England, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. Each class has its own clowns, rebels, and underdogs-all who hold a special place in the old teacher's heart. But every so often there's a boy who doesn't quite fit the mold. A troublemaker. A boy with darkness inside. With insolvency and academic failure looming, a new headmaster arrives at the venerable school,...
Author
Series
Chocolat novels (Joanne Harris) volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part of the community. Even Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend. But when old Narcisse, the florist, dies, leaving a parcel of land to Rosette and a written confession to Reynaud, the life of the sleepy village...
Author
Series
Chocolat novels (Joanne Harris) volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Vianne Rochet returns to the French village of Lansquenet with her daughters, Anouk and Rosette, before allying herself with a desperate Father Frances Reynaud to reverse disturbing local changes.
Author
Series
Chocolat novels (Joanne Harris) volume 1
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When the beautiful and mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny village are torn between the solemn law of religion and the rewards of Vianne's confections.
10) Chocolat
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.