Rumer Godden

Apr 10, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Patricia Highsmith |Michael Ondaatje |Anthony Minghella |Rumer Godden

Before we get to your choices, tell me about the connection between books and films. Why are so many of the movies that I end up watching on Netflix or at the cinema based on books? I think that cinema is, in many ways, a predatory thief. It searches for material and though it can be original and quite wonderful it isn’t always. It seems to me that even novelists are thieves, seeking stories from the past. Historical fiction is one example.

Dec 12, 2023 | katrinarobinson.co.uk | Rumer Godden |Ada Leverson |Michael Walmer |Manderley Press

Within the space of a day, an old Cornish house known as China Court goes through a family death, an inheritance, and a last-minute wedding, all against a shifting backdrop of stories of the previous five generations of its inhabitants. Originally published in 1960 and now reissued in a delectable Manderley Press edition, it's a novel steeped in a lost past.

Nov 30, 2023 | thecatholicspirit.com | Rumer Godden |Evelyn Waugh |John Buchan |Graham Greene

The Catholic Spirit asked six members of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis — a religious sister, a retired professor, a permanent deacon, a Catholic school headmaster, the founder of a Catholic reading group and a priest — to choose a novel that uniquely sheds light on the depth and drama of the Catholic experience and to briefly explain that choice. Each of these women and men has spent years contemplating great novels.