Learwife
By: J.R. Thorp
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famo…
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1. The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
By: Deborah Smith , Ahn Do-hyun
4.36
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
The life of the salmon is a predictable one: swimming upstream to the place of its birth to spawn, … read more
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2. The Dance Tree
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
3. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"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
4. Stone Blind
By: Natalie Haynes
3.82
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
A fresh take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. They will fear you and flee y… read more
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- retellings
- historical
- feminism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Then look."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?"-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
5. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
6. The Hemlock Cure
By: Joanne Burn
3.73
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith, the village midwife, walks a d… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. 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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- feminism
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"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
9. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
10. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
11. Pearl
By: Siân Hughes
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
12. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- feminism
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
13. 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
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- 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
14. The Tower
By: Flora Carr
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
16. Fair Rosaline
By: Natasha Solomons
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capule… read more
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- literary fiction
- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
17. The Witches of Vardø
By: Anya Bergman
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more
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- historical
- feminism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
18. Death on the Trans-Siberian Express (Olga Pushkin #1)
By: C.J. Farrington
3.08
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Roslazny - a sleepy Russian town where intrigue and murder combine to disturb the icy si… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Yet she was gone, and with her the magical grace that dissolved difficulties into laughter."-C.J. Farrington, Death on the Trans-Siberian Express (Olga Pushkin #1)
19. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
20. Learwife
By: J.R. Thorp
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famo… read more
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- literary fiction
- retellings
- unfinished
- british literature
- historical
- feminism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- womens
- audiobook
21. Queen Hereafter
By: Isabelle Schuler
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more
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- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
22. Terms of Restitution
By: Denzil Meyrick
4.15
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Gangland boss Zander Finn is so sickened by the brutal murder of his son in a Paisley pub, he decid… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
23. Savage Her Reply
By: Deirdre Sullivan
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan's hypnotic prose. A retelling of… read more
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- retellings
- feminism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember."-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply
"Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my a…"-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply
24. The Gifts
By: Liz Hyder
3.72
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. Violets
By: Alex Hyde
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a lyrical new voice in British fiction, an astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in t… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
26. A River Called Time
By: Courttia Newland
2.66
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the ent… read more
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- fiction
- unfinished
- audiobook
27. The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV
By: Jaci Byrne
3.75
Format: 324 pages, ebook
The inspirational true story of an Allied POW appointed Kapellmeister to the Nazis in Auschwitz. Wh… read more
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- audiobook
28. Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
By: Jonathan Bate
4.16
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespe… read more
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29. One More to Die
By: Joy Ellis
3.43
Format: 5 pages, Audiobook
From the Queen of Police Procedural Joy Ellis, the #1 bestselling author of the Jackman and Evans s… read more
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- audiobook
30. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power
By: Sasha Swire
3.47
Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more
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31. Our Evenings
By: Alan Hollinghurst
4.28
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
