Any connections between the following are left as an exercise for the reader.

( Morris Gleitzman, Bumface. )

( Up with the Joneses, Penelope Balogh. )

( Gillian Bradshaw, Island of Ghosts (re-read). )

( Evelyn Waugh, Scoop. )

( EM Forster, A Room with a View. )

( Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade. )