Reasons to Be Cheerful
By: Nina Stibbe
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle m…
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1. Gutenberg's Apprentice
By: Alix Christie
3.51
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling literary debut that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. Notes to My Mother-in-law
By: Phyllida Law
4.12
Format: None pages,
'My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.' It took a while b… read more
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- humor
3. 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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- adult 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
4. Over Sharing
By: Jane Fallon
3.73
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The queen of revenge comedy is back with a hilariously sharp and refreshing new novel Can you li… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
6. Cat Lady
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- comedy
- audiobook
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady
7. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- audiobook
- womens
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)
By: Marian Keyes
4.02
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Mother's Boy
By: Patrick Gale
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more
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- audiobook
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
10. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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- humor
- comedy
- audiobook
11. The God Desire
By: David Baddiel
3.69
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more
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- audiobook
- humor
- british literature
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
12. Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups
By: William Miller
3.98
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley PrizeGloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked b… read more
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13. Reasons to Be Cheerful
By: Nina Stibbe
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle m… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- british literature
- coming of age
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- comedy
- historical fiction
14. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
By: Tristan Gooley
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more
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15. Tiananmen Square
By: Lai Wen
4.10
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
An epic, deeply moving coming-of-age novel about young love and lasting friendships forged in the y… read more
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- audiobook
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"My father. He was, I realize now, rather small for a man, both lean and compact, but as a small child you inhabit a land of giants. And fathers are the tallest giants of all."-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square
"As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin to illness, something that left a person weak and in some way less than themselves. But I ne…"-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square
16. The Break-Up Clause
By: Niamh Hargan
3.53
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
What do you do if your new intern at work turns out to be your secret – and hated – accidental husb… read more
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- contemporary
17. Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance
By: Matt Fitzgerald
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attemp… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Notekeeper
By: Hannah Treave
3.83
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
Following a tragedy, Zoe flees Australia and makes a life for herself in the UK. Now working as a c… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
19. After the Party
By: Georgina Lees
3.25
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
He should have chosen me. I never should have chosen him. Lizzie has been in love with her coll… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
20. Summer in Greece
By: Patricia M Wilson
4.20
Format: 474 pages, Kindle Edition
Present day For the last twenty years, Summer has lived a solitary life, focusing on her career … read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
