perrydc

Mystery Train

Song written and recorded by American blues musician Junior Parker in 1953. Originally performed in the style of a Memphis blues or rhythm and blues tune, it was inspired by earlier songs and later became a popular rockabilly song, as first covered by Elvis Presley, then numerous others.

Wolf Hall

2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family’s seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire

The Piazza Tales

Collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June

West with the Night

1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there

The Infatuations

National Novel Prize-winning novel by Javier Maras, published in 2011. The translation into English by Margaret Jull Costa was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2013.
It was shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award .


== References ==

The Magic Mountain

Novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature