12 must-read british literature books like A Woman of My Age by Nina Bawden

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A Woman of My Age

By: Nina Bawden

3.95

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Elizabeth and Richard, 18 years married, have come to Morocco on holiday. As the adventures and dis…

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1. Crampton Hodnet

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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2. An Unsuitable Attachment

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages,

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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3. A View of the Harbour

By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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4. Dear Life: Stories

By: Alice Munro

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more

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  • fiction
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5. 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

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  • fiction
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6. Angel

By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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7. Altered States

By: Anita Brookner

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and w… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature

8. Family Album

By: Penelope Lively

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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9. 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

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  • fiction
  • british literature

10. Family and Friends

By: Anita Brookner

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in FAMILY AND FRIE… read more

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11. Spiderweb

By: Penelope Lively

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and… read more

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12. Next to Nature, Art

By: Penelope Lively

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Next to Nature, Artis the fourth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Run by Toby … read more

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13. Consequences

By: Penelope Lively

3.00

Format: 107 pages,

The Booker Prize-winning author's first novel since The Photographis a sweeping saga of three gener… read more

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14. The Road to Lichfield

By: Penelope Lively

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodi… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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15. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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16. The Romantic

By: William Boyd

4.15

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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17. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

18. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain

19. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of A Woman of My Age by Nina Bawden

20. A Woman of My Age

By: Nina Bawden

3.95

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Elizabeth and Richard, 18 years married, have come to Morocco on holiday. As the adventures and dis… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken          Smith

21. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.23

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more

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16 must-read fiction books like A Woman of My Age by Nina Bawden

Transform Your Habits

Crampton Hodnet

Barbara Pym

3.70

Transform Your Habits

An Unsuitable Attachment

Barbara Pym

3.70

Transform Your Habits

A View of the Harbour

Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Dear Life: Stories

Alice Munro

2.50

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15 Top fiction books like The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) by Jane Gardam

Transform Your Habits

The Dressmaker

Beryl Bainbridge

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Someone at a Distance

Dorothy Whipple

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Blaming

Elizabeth Taylor , Jonathan Keates

3.76

Family Album

Penelope Lively

3.79

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