8 best-selling british literature books like The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon

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The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch…

"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

If you liked the british literature plot in The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Henry VIII book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

Similar categories in Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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3. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature

4. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

By: Juliet Nicolson

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable wome… read more

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5. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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6. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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7. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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8. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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9. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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10. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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11. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1) book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

12. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • british literature
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13. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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14. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Shy Creatures book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Deadly Obsession

By: Nigel May

4.06

Format: 380 pages, ebook

Sex, money and a life of luxury …someone wants what they have … Amy Barrowman grew up on the wrong… read more

Similar categories in Nigel May's Deadly Obsession book and Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

  • fiction
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16. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin

17. Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

By: Marianne Cronin

4.62

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Ordinary Time

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink

4.18

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

'There are already three of us in this marriage. I'm not sure there is room for a fourth . . .'Ann … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson

20. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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  • british literature

18 Best fiction books like The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon

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Henry VIII

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

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The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

Jane Gardam

4.10

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Barbara Pym

3.90

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The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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Chris Brookmyre

4.07

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