To Calais, in Ordinary Time
By: James Meek
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman is fleeing an odious arranged marriage, a…
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1. John Crow's Devil
By: Marlon James
3.73
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
This stunning debut novel tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 19… read more
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2. The Famished Road
By: Ben Okri
3.73
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, wit… read more
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"He danced there like an overturned centipede."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squ…"-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
3. Treasure Hunt (Commissario Montalbano, #16)
By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The sixteenth irresistible mystery in the New York Times bestselling Montalbano series. A hail of … read more
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4. Shakespeare: The Biography
By: Peter Ackroyd
2.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of… read more
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5. Harvest
By: Jim Crace
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
WINNER INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a… read more
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6. Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)
By: William Gibson
4.30
Format: 237 pages,
Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she… read more
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7. The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3)
By: Neal Stephenson
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The System of the World,the third and concluding volume of Neal Stephenson's shelf-bending Baroque … read more
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8. All the Birds, Singing
By: Evie Wyld
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more
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9. Kiss of the Fur Queen
By: Tomson Highway
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are al… read more
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10. Alif the Unseen
By: G. Willow Wilson
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients--dissid… read more
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11. A Change Of Climate
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Set in both the windswept countryside of Norfolk and the violent townships of South Africa, this is… read more
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12. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more
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13. Highland Fling
By: Nancy Mitford
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Scottish Highlands may never be the same after the Bright Young Things meet the Dull Old things… read more
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14. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
15. Le Bureau des affaires occultes
By: Eric Fouassier
3.74
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
Prix Maison de la Presse 2021 "LE roman historique de l'année. Vous ne le lâcherez pas." Gérard Co… read more
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16. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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17. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
18. The Winter List (Damian Seeker #6)
By: S.G. MacLean
4.38
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supporte… read more
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19. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
20. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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21. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
By: Eliot Higgins
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more
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22. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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23. To Calais, in Ordinary Time
By: James Meek
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman is fleeing an odious arranged marriage, a… read more
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24. Hurdy Gurdy
By: Christopher Wilson
3.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Novice friar Brother Diggory… read more
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25. Quichotte
By: Salman Rushdie
3.81
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiec… read more
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"AS I PLAN MY QUEST,"-Salman Rushdie, Quichotte
"If you die and go to Hell" the Braves fan said, "you have to change places in Atlanta."-Salman Rushdie, Quichotte
" Our president looks like a Christmas ham and talks like Chucky. We're America, bitch. "-Salman Rushdie, Quichotte
"Normal doesn't feel so normal to me," I tell him. "It's normal to feel that way," he replies."-Salman Rushdie, Quichotte
26. News of the Dead
By: James Robertson
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the s… read more
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"I don’t believe in anything except this one thing: where you are. Everybody has a place: that’s all I believe in. Whether you call it home or not, whether it is where you end up or where you started …"-James Robertson, News of the Dead
27. Cecily
By: Annie Garthwaite
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Rebellion?" The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips… read more
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28. A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
By: Hilary Mantel
4.33
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a noveli… read more
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"Mourning is work. It is not simply being sad. It is naming your pain. It is witnessing the sorrow of others, drawing out the shape of loss. It is natural and necessary and there is no healing without…"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
"How nice, then, to go to Waterstones and not to have to disinfect yourself when you get home; yet sometimes as a reader I feel nostalgic for disorder, for the random and unpredictable. I find myself …"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
29. Square Peg, Round Ball: Football, TV and Me: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023
By: Ned Boulting
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'What Ned hasn't seen on a sports TV channel isn't worth knowing about.' Gabby Logan 'From falling… read more
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30. Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England
By: Liza Picard
3.93
Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition
'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetCh… read more
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