The go-to fashion advice manual, listing all the sorts of outrageously minimalist clothes worn to Academy Award presentations or by high-profile fashionistas and definitely unsuitable to wear for a job interview or on public transport.  

Remember me to Harold Square

When a young reporter visits the north of England on a sabbatical trek, he accidentally runs into a silent old craftsman who sells beautiful wooden planes. After buying one of the models, the young man reflexively attempts to find out the backstory of the craftsman; what he finds is the story of a loving romance that all started at an accidental meeting at Harold Square. Filled to the brim with joy, the old fellow lives his life creating little trinkets of beauty, inside each of which are captured the story of Harold Square.

Ivanhoe

@silverlily I know it! I know it!

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@silverlily I know it! I know it!

So do I, meaning Mountains of Spices by Hannah Hurnard. I haven't read it yet, but I am planning to do so after an upcoming re-reading of Hind's Feet... !

(Back to Ivanhoe... )

The life story of a simple Russian peasant who is so devoted to tending his vegetable garden that he becomes known to all as Ivan of the Hoe, and eventually just Ivanhoe for short. 

Wuthering Heights 

An Australian family try to live for a year in the bleak and windy township of Haworth in Yorkshire, not far from the much written about moors of Wuthering Heights. 

The Silk Roads

An egotistical king demands that every road he travels on must be covered with fine silk.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance