The Confession
By: Jessie Burton
3.91
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly…
Want to Read $ 11.99"[...] And women are always like that.' 'What do you mean?' 'Well, all the women I know who've left long-term relationships in their thirties checked out of it long before they actually did. They went through all the grief when they were still together with the guy. Played through all the scenarios, processed their feelings - so when the split actually happened, they just felt light and free. Men take it worse. They pretend not to, but they do. They haven't laid any preparations.' 'Right. [...]."-Jessie Burton, The Confession
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1. Trespass
By: Rose Tremain
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, th… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
2. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
3. Jakob (Hildur, #3)
By: Satu Rämö
3.32
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Joulu on juhlista julmin. Milloin tulee vastaan piste, jossa paraskaan tarkoitus ei enää pyhitä … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
4. The Familiars
By: Stacey Halls
3.88
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Respect is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
5. 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
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
6. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
7. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
8. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
By: Richard Osman
4.49
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
9. The Keeper of Stories
By: Sally Page
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
10. The Book of Beginnings
By: Sally Page
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
11. The Doll Factory
By: Elizabeth Macneal
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory
12. The Foundling
By: Stacey Halls
3.99
Format: 400 pages, ebook
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
13. Lily
By: Rose Tremain
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
14. 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
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- 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
15. Pakene ennen aamua
By: Eeva Louko
3.32
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Ronja, Milla ja Ansku puolisoineen lähtevät viikonlopuksi Bengtskärin majakalle saunomaan ja rentou… read more
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16. Small Pleasures
By: Clare Chambers
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
17. The Confession
By: Jessie Burton
3.91
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"[...] And women are always like that.' 'What do you mean?' 'Well, all the women I know who've left long-term relationships in their thirties checked out of it long before they actually did. They went…"-Jessie Burton, The Confession
18. Punaorvot
By: Anneli Kanto
3.92
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Helsinkiläisen työläisperheen äiti Helmi menettää punaisten joukossa taistelleen miehensä sisälliss… read more
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- historical fiction
19. Itki toisenkin
By: Merja Mäki
4.23
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Tunteikas romaani sota-ajan rakkaudesta Karjalassa Larja palaa kesällä 1942 opettajaleiriltä kanta… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
20. Oranssi puutarha
By: Erja Tulasalo
3.68
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Väkevä esikoisromaani uskonnollisen yhteisön muotteihin kelpaamattomasta nuoresta naisesta. Maar… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
21. Sunbirds
By: Penelope Slocombe
4.13
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1997 Anne's eighteen-year-old son Torran walked out of his hotel in the notorious Himalayan town… read more
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