After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
By: Jean Rhys
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“Lucid, exact, and swift.… An essential part of the [Rhys] record.” ―V. S. Naipaul, New York Review…
Want to Read"But what if it were heaven when she got there?"-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"She found pleasure in memories, as an old woman might have done."-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"Darling.' She said 'darling' with her lips, but her heart was dead."-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?"-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
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1. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.65
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more
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"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
2. Aimez-vous Brahms...
By: Françoise Sagan
3.72
Format: 120 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Paule a 39 ans, c'est une femme libre et douce, sur qui les années passent avec nonchalance. Son am… read more
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3. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
4. The Shortest Way to Hades (Hilary Tamar, #2)
By: Sarah Caudwell
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Mass Market Paperback
To avoid taxes, a family agrees to change the trust and support heiress, ravishing raven-haired Cam… read more
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5. Utz
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged … read more
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6. Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Hilary Tamar, #1)
By: Sarah Caudwell
3.88
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
When her personal copy of the current Finance Act is found a few metres away from a body, young bar… read more
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7. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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8. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By: Elizabeth Smart
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more
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9. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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10. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
11. Hotel World
By: Ali Smith
4.50
Format: 176 pages,
Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike, mesmerising Hotel World, set in the luxurious … read more
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12. The Good Soldier
By: Ford Madox Ford , None , Kenneth Womack
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldierrelates the complex social and sexua… read more
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13. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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14. Elizabeth Costello
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, a… read more
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15. Lament for Julia
By: Susan Taubes
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A celestial overseer observes—and is continually confounded by—a young woman’s path into adulthood … read more
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16. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
By: Miranda Seymour
3.85
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean… read more
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17. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
By: Jean Rhys
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“Lucid, exact, and swift.… An essential part of the [Rhys] record.” ―V. S. Naipaul, New York Review… read more
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- 20th century
- novels
"But what if it were heaven when she got there?"-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"She found pleasure in memories, as an old woman might have done."-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"Darling.' She said 'darling' with her lips, but her heart was dead."-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?"-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
18. 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
19. Love
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.63
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their dis… read more
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"He looks at her as he listens, smiling when she's finished. She feels like touching the stubble of his beard with the tips of her fingers, smoothing her hands over his face the way she does with the …"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
"The sound of the car. When he's waiting he can never quite recall it. I've forgotten, he tells himself. But then it comes back to him, often in pauses between the waiting, after he's stopped thinking…"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
20. The Bloater
By: Rosemary Tonks
3.47
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Min, married, but like a reckless little schoolgirl still unbroken, is being wooed by 'the Bloater'… read more
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21. A Month in Siena
By: Hisham Matar
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the firs… read more
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