Vaughan Reads 2013
Further Reads
Here is a list of some reading suggestions that you may want to explore after reading The Tale-Teller by Susan Glickman. Also included here are the two other runner ups in our first edition Vaughan Reads – Beautiful Mystery and The Deception of Livvy Higgs. We hope that The Tale-Teller sparked your interest in related subject matter and similar great literature. Don’t forget to come out to the Bathurst Clark Resource Library on Sunday, December 8th at 1 pm to see The Tale-Teller author Susan Glickman in person!
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Mitchell, David / FIC Mitch
In 1799 Dutch trader Jacob De Zoet lands in closed off Japan for a five year mission. As in The Tale-Teller, this book describes the life of a stranger in a strange land in centuries past. Personally speaking, this was one of my favourite books from the last few years. Highly recommended..by me.
Martel, Yann / FIC Marte
Shipwreck survivor Pi has only animals for company as his lifeboat drifts in the Pacific. Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for this book back in 2002. which is a pretty big deal in the publishing world.
Hebert, Anne / FIC Heber
A tale of horror and imagination based on a real 19th century love triangle in rural Quebec. Also made into a hard to find film directed by the great Quebecois Director Claude Jutra.
Defoe, Daniel / FIC Defoe
The diary of an Englishman shipwrecked for almost thirty years on a small isolated island. As mentioned in The Tale-Teller , Robinson Crusoe is an important book in Esther’s life.
Rich, Roberta / FIC Robert
16th century Venice: a Jewish midwife is asked to illegally deliver a noblewoman’s baby. Hannah Levi is known throughout sixteenth-century Venice for her skill in midwifery. When a Christian count appears at Hannah’s door in the Jewish ghetto imploring her to attend his labouring wife, who is nearing death, Hannah is forced to make a dangerous decision. Not only is it illegal for Jews to render medical treatment to Christians, it’s also punishable by torture and death. Moreover, as her Rabbi angrily points out, if the mother or child should die, the entire ghetto population will be in peril.
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi: a novel
Park, Jacqueline / FIC Park
So begins the “secret book” of Grazia dei Rossi — a written legacy from a mother to her son. Heiress to a Jewish banking dynasty, secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d’Este, married to the Pope’s Jewish body physician, and lover of the Christian Lord Pirro Gonzaga, Grazia dei Rossi is a woman suspended between two cultures, forced to choose between two men, two worlds.
Franklin, Arianna /FIC Frank
Going back in time even further than The Tale-Teller and The Midwife of Venice is Mistress of the Art of Death which is part of the ongoing 12th century mysteries featuring medical examiner Adelia. Like Esther, Adelia is Jewish but due to the rampant anti Semitism of the times, she must hide her faith from those around her.
Morrissey, Donna / FIC Morri
Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks which prompt her to revisit a past devastated by lies and secrets.
Penny, Louise / FIC Penny
A choir director at a monastery is found dead, C.I. Gamache is called to investigate.