Books

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com The Girls By William Boyd It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a 28-year-old Russian emigrant living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com The Girls By Lor Lansens The girls, Rose and Ruby Darlen, are one of the world’s oldest living craniopagus conjoined twins. Born into a rural

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Tête à Tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre By Hazel Rowley They are one of the world’s legendary couples.

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Possible Side Effects By Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs A laugh out loud collection of short stories based on Burroughs’s past experiences

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com The Two Minute Rule By Robert Crais This book shows just how long or short this time span can be, depending on your standpoint. Two

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Born to be Riled By Jeremy Clarkson Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com A Stain on the Silence By Andrew Taylor His recent books have all been set in the past. Now he brings his setting right up-to-date

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Mother Killers by John Piper DR JOHN Piper is a well-known character in the Algarve, as a surgeon and as a longstanding resident. This is

By Kiran Desai In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in a crumbling isolated house, there lives a cantankerous old judge, who wants nothing more than to

By Lisa See Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: