Beastings
By: Benjamin Myers
4.17
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rur…
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1. The Night in Question
By: Tobias Wolff
4.16
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
A man is shot dead while standing in line at the bank, another is fired for printing an obituary of… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary."-Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question
"Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time."-Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question
"Someday Miller is going to die. He knows that and he prides himself on knowing it when everyone else only pretends to, secretly believing that they will live forever.....A simple truth . His mother i…"-Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question
2. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- thriller
- horror
3. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
4. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
5. Pity
By: Andrew McMillan
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
6. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.63
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
7. Christ on a Bike
By: Orla Owen
3.89
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Cerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached. Three simple rules that must… read more
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- fiction
8. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
9. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
- horror
10. Beastings
By: Benjamin Myers
4.17
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rur… read more
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- literary fiction
- thriller
- british literature
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- horror
- dark
- historical fiction
- novels
11. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
By: Matthieu Simard
3.66
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more
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- thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
12. That Reminds Me
By: Derek Owusu
3.83
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of K. K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. He grows up in fields… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"I wanted to live again. As they gathered, I felt the pressure of each tear awake to its own trickling sand weighing down the dirt on my grave."-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"As I walk home, doubting each step before I make it, I am agnostic. Before I close my eyes to sleep, I am a Christian. When I wake, pulled from the pool still reflecting the penumbra, I am spiritual,…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"After a late-night library trip I’d call her and say, ‘Look at the moon.’ Black boys rarely speak on the poet’s muse so these twilight tropes seemed original – the moon is glowing new when seen throu…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"Anansi, your four gifts raised to Nyame grant you no power over the stories I tell, stories that build like dew, alerting you but creating no music when they drop onto the drums of our sky. Take my ‘…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
13. Fragile Animals
By: Genevieve Jagger
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
14. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
15. Beyond the Sea
By: Paul Lynch
3.74
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Fishermen Bolivar and Hector set sail from their South American village, but soon find themselves c… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
16. Wivenhoe
By: Samuel Fisher
3.19
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Never thought he would miss the mud: the gleaming, slickness of it. The slap and suck at the turnin… read more
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- thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"It was a time in her life when she would seek out mirrors whenever she cried, finding comfort in being a witness to her own grief. A time from which every memory has a strange timeless lucidity."-Samuel Fisher, Wivenhoe
17. The Doloriad
By: Missouri Williams
3.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- horror
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
18. Water Shall Refuse Them
By: Lucie McKnight Hardy
3.45
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- horror
19. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure
By: Adelle Stripe
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOO… read more
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20. London, Burning
By: Anthony Quinn
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. Absorbed
By: Kylie Whitehead
3.73
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Allison has been with Owen since university. She's given up on writing her novel and is working a d… read more
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- literary fiction
- dark
- fiction
- thriller
- horror
