The BBC National Short Story Award 2021
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.61
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
A group of teenage boys take turns assessing each other’s changing bodies before a Friday night di…
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1. The Big Sleep and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe #1-2, 6)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.32
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe f… read more
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"His voice was the elaborately casual voice of the tough guy in pictures. Pictures have made them all like that."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe #1-2, 6)
2. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
By: Agatha Christie
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something m… read more
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"Why didn't they ask the Evans?"-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
"Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays."-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
"A woman would know all right about her own husband."-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
"Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing."-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
3. Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
By: Christina Henry
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook--a tale about… read more
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4. Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #32)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while … read more
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5. Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)
By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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6. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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7. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
8. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
9. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
10. The Lover
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.80
Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition
During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, i… read more
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- fiction
11. 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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12. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
13. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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14. The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
By: Kate Summerscale
3.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, an ordinary young housewife has become the eye in a storm… read more
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15. Mrs Death Misses Death
By: Salena Godden
3.51
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel. Mrs Death… read more
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"Spoiler Alert: We all die in the end"-Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death
"You live forever in your words, in hearts and memories, in your creations and connections. The seeds you sow, the child you raise, the song you sing, the story you write with your time here. You are …"-Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death
16. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
17. The Rise
By: Ian Rankin
3.65
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more
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- fiction
18. The BBC National Short Story Award 2021
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.61
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
A group of teenage boys take turns assessing each other’s changing bodies before a Friday night di… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
19. West
By: Carys Davies
3.70
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge anci… read more
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20. The BBC National Short Story Award 2022
By: Elizabeth Day
3.71
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Established in 2005, the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was originally co… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
21. Best British Short Stories 2022
By: Nicholas Royle
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year. Best British Sh… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
