The Secret Guests (St. John Strafford, #1)
By: Benjamin Black
3.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As London endures nightly German bombings, Britain's secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth…
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1. Summer at the Garden Café (Finfarran Peninsula, #2)
By: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
3.61
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
A heart-warming story about secrets between four generations of women and the healing power of book… read more
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"Everyone who's every lived has been the sum of their ancestor's choices. That's the human condition."-Felicity Hayes-McCoy, Summer at the Garden Café (Finfarran Peninsula, #2)
2. The Book of Evidence
By: John Banville
3.64
Format: 192 pages,
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old m… read more
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3. Killings
By: Calvin Trillin , Carolyn Trillin
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism. Reporter… read more
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4. Death Qualified (Barbara Holloway #1)
By: Kate Wilhelm
4.57
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Barbara had given up the law five years before, but she's still "death qualified," still able to de… read more
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5. The Untouchable
By: John Banville
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the … read more
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6. Dragon Bones (Red Princess, #3)
By: Lisa See
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling … read more
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7. Running Girl (Garvie Smith Mystery, #1)
By: Simon Mason
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Meet Garvie Smith. Highest IQ ever recorded at Marsh Academy. Lowest ever grades. What's the point,… read more
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8. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.46
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more
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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
9. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
By: Tana French
4.12
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more
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"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
10. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)
By: John Banville
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more
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11. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)
By: John Banville
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more
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12. Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11)
By: Iona Whishaw
4.39
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertainin… read more
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13. The Secret Guests (St. John Strafford, #1)
By: Benjamin Black
3.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Last Drop of Hemlock (Nightingale Mysteries, #2)
By: Katharine Schellman
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly has gotten a job at the Nightingale, a speakeasy known to the young an… read more
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15. The Singularities
By: John Banville
3.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, li… read more
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16. A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
By: Hilary Mantel
4.33
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a noveli… read more
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"Mourning is work. It is not simply being sad. It is naming your pain. It is witnessing the sorrow of others, drawing out the shape of loss. It is natural and necessary and there is no healing without…"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
"How nice, then, to go to Waterstones and not to have to disinfect yourself when you get home; yet sometimes as a reader I feel nostalgic for disorder, for the random and unpredictable. I find myself …"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
17. Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
By: John Banville
3.73
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each year, on his birt… read more
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"Where did this absurd rule come from, and why did we so meekly obey it? Under a tyrannical regime--and the Ireland of those days was a spiritual tyranny--the populace becomes so cowed that it does th…"-John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
18. Lowbridge
By: Lucy Campbell
3.83
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
Where everybody knows everyone, how can somebody just disappear? A missing girl. Decades of silenc… read more
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19. The Man in Black: Stories
By: Elly Griffiths
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more
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20. Rare Singles
By: Benjamin Myers
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more
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21. Girl Falling
By: Hayley Scrivenor
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Why would my best friend want to destroy my life?Finn and her best friend, Daphne, have grown up to… read more
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