19 best-selling historical fiction books like Touch Not the Nettle by Molly Clavering

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Touch Not the Nettle

By: Molly Clavering

4.08

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Susan Armstrong is savouring a quiet evening at home with husband Jed, but her peace is fleeting. A…

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1. Miss Plum and Miss Penny

By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith

3.83

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of her 40th birthday, Alison Penny believes that from now on her life should be noth… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Love isn't safe. Love is a blinding flash in the dark. It is a leap over a cliff. It is a breathless dive to the bottom of the ocean..."

-Dorothy Evelyn Smith, Miss Plum and Miss Penny

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2. Listening Valley

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Toni Melville, who retreats into her own "listening valley" to seek solace, is the absorbing subjec… read more

Similar categories in D.E. Stevenson's Listening Valley book and Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle

  • romance
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. Summer Pudding

By: Noel Streatfeild , Susan Scarlett

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Celia's House

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

Celia's House, filled with effervescent warmth and cheer, is the story of Dunnian -- a spellbinding… read more

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5. Nil (Nil, #1)

By: Lynne Matson

4.32

Format: 224 pages, ebook

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape,… read more

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6. High Rising

By: Angela Thirkell

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

In Angela Thirkell's first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in… read more

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7. The Musgraves

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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8. Anna and Her Daughters

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.89

Format: 272 pages,

When their father dies, none of the three Harcourt girls Helen, Jane and Rosalie are particularly u… read more

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9. Amberwell (Ayrton Family Book 1)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.53

Format: 288 pages,

Five young Ayrtons all grew up at Amberwell, playing in the gardens and preparing themselves to ven… read more

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10. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more

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11. The Corner Shop

By: Elizabeth Cadell

3.99

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Available for the first time on Kindle! Lucille Abbey runs her London secretarial agency with utmo… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Cadell's The Corner Shop book and Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle

  • romance
  • fiction
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12. Kate Hardy

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.02

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

"Do you know anything about her, Richard?" "Nothing except that she lives in London, is obviousl… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Babbacombe's

By: Susan Scarlett

4.00

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

"I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had to… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Under the Rainbow

By: Susan Scarlett

4.11

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

To those who saw Saltings first on a hot day in summer-when heat shimmered in the hollows-that chur… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Sally-Ann

By: Susan Scarlett

3.97

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The Marchioness's face changed. ... She turned to Ann. "What is your name, dear?" "Ann." "Wou… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Landscape in Sunlight

By: Elizabeth Fair

3.94

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Published in the United States as All One Summer. At the end of the war, Mrs. Midge stayed on. W… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Apricot Sky

By: Ruby Ferguson

4.30

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

"I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom n… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Ferguson's Apricot Sky book and Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle

  • romance
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Fair Miss Fortune

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.80

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

"There's something . . . I mean we simply must see Miss Fortune now. She isn't in bed, is she?" "N… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Clothes-Pegs

By: Susan Scarlett

3.86

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Clothes-Pegs book and Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Gerald & Elizabeth (Gerald and Elizabeth #1)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.08

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Gerald is a young man travelling by ship from South Africa, avoiding his fellow passengers, yet hug… read more

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  • romance
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Touch Not the Nettle

By: Molly Clavering

4.08

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Susan Armstrong is savouring a quiet evening at home with husband Jed, but her peace is fleeting. A… read more

Similar categories in Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle book and Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle

  • romance
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Parson's House

By: Elizabeth Cadell

4.05

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

When Jeanne had spent her summer holidays there as a child with her schoolfriend, Parson’s House, o… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Cadell's Parson's House book and Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle

  • romance
  • fiction
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23. Rochester's Wife

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.11

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Although published in 1940, this is an insightful tale of love and commitment that will resonate wi… read more

Similar categories in D.E. Stevenson's Rochester's Wife book and Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Peter and Paul

By: Susan Scarlett

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

It is not fun being the plain one of the family. But being the plain one of twins is a wretched pos… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
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25. The Man in the Dark

By: Susan Scarlett

4.07

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

"Yes, and then I'll go over Miss Kay's rooms with either you or the housekeeper." "There is no hou… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's The Man in the Dark book and Molly Clavering's Touch Not the Nettle

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. The Marble Staircase

By: Elizabeth Fair

3.83

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Looking back she could not remember when she had settled down to mere existence, no longer expectin… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. The Tall Stranger

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.29

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Is her childhood sweetheart who he seems? Barbie France has known Edward Steyne all her life – inde… read more

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  • romance
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The House of the Deer (Gerald and Elizabeth #2)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.04

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

At short notice Gerald Burleigh Brown is asked to take a deer-stalking holiday in place of his brot… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Home for the Wedding

By: Elizabeth Cadell

3.96

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

Beautiful Stacey Marsh made a mistake—she should never have come home for her wedding. She had fors… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
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30. Young Mrs. Savage

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.06

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes she wished she could stick up a large notice "FOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT TOO MANY" . . . Rai… read more

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  • romance
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

23 must-read fiction books like Touch Not the Nettle by Molly Clavering

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Miss Plum and Miss Penny

Dorothy Evelyn Smith

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Listening Valley

D.E. Stevenson

4.09

Summer Pudding

Noel Streatfeild , Susan Scarlett

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The Corner Shop

Elizabeth Cadell

3.99

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Transform Your Habits

Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1)

D.E. Stevenson

4.33

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The Enchanted Isle

D.E. Stevenson

3.91

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The Corner Shop

Elizabeth Cadell

3.99

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Kate Hardy

D.E. Stevenson

4.02

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