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If You Liked... Downton Abbey September 2017 |
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The World of Downton Abbey
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The world of Downton Abbey
by Jessica Fellowes
A companion book to the popular British series, which also aired in the United States on PBS, includes full-color photos throughout.
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Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the real Downton Abbey
by Fiona Carnarvon
Highclere Castle has a new resident, the daughter-in-law of Lady Almina, an American beauty from New York and a descendant of famous American families, in this real-life story that draws on original source material. Original.
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A year in the life of Downton Abbey
by Jessica Fellowes
An official companion to the hit series shares insights into daily and seasonal life for upstairs and downstairs residents at the early 20th-century estate, incorporating exclusive photos from Season 5.
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Downton Abbey Read Alikes
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The remains of the day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity
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The house at Riverton : a novel
by Kate Morton
Living out her final days in a nursing home, ninety-eight-year-old Grace remembers the secrets surrounding the 1924 suicide of a young poet during a glittering society party hosted by Grace's English aristocrat employers, a family that is shattered by war.
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Goodbye, Piccadilly : war at home, 1914
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
In 1914, the Hunter family, their servants and their neighbors, who live in the once-tranquil British village of Northcote, must find a way to adapt to their rapidly changing world as the war becomes more dangerous and their town reels under the influx of volunteers, wounded soldiers and Belgian refugees.
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Cavendon Hall
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A tale spanning 16 years in Edwardian England finds the centuries-long relationship between the aristocratic Inghams and the Swann family who serves them tested by the outbreak of World War I. By the award-winning author of A Woman of Substance.
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The dust that falls from dreams
by Louis De Bernières
The Edwardian-era friendship shared among the four McCosh sisters and their neighbors in the London countryside are indelibly changed by the horrifying realities of World War I and its aftermath. By the award-winning author of Corelli's Mandolin.
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Parade's end /
A repressed man is torn between being faithful to his vindictive wife and being with the woman he loves in England in the midst of World War I.
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Secrets of Highclere Castle
Explores the history of Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England, more commonly known as the setting of television's Downton Abbey.
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Howards End
In Edwardian England, two well educated sisters, each find different ways to deal with the constrainsts of society.
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Manor house
Modern day people are put into the lifestyle of a manor house in the early 1900s, living under the Edwardian rules of three British social classes; the aristocrats, upper servants, and lower servants
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Gosford Park
The lives and interactions among a group of upper class and their servants at a weekend hunting party in the English country, and a mysterious murder that occurs among them.
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