Read in July

Cara Black, Murder in the Palais Royale
Meghan Daum, Life would be perfect if I lived in that house

Juliet Nicolson, The great silence:  Britain from the Shadows of the First World War to the dawn of the jazz age (the best book this month)
Alexander McCall Smith, Corduroy Mansions
Jane Ziegelman, 97 Orchard:  an edible history of five immigrant families in one New York tenement
Kim Severson, Spoon Fed:  How eight cooks saved my life
Dominique Browning, Slow love:  how I lost my job, put on my pajamas and found happiness
Katie Fforde, Wedding season
Elizabeth Jenkins, Jane Austen:  a biography
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park