Tea Is So Intoxicating
By: Mary Essex
3.51
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
“I shall turn this into a tea-house, with lunches if requested, and shall serve pleasant meals in t…
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1. At Mrs Lippincote's
By: Valerie Martin , Elizabeth Taylor
3.82
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder… read more
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"Oliver Davenant did not merely read books. He snuffed them up, took breaths of them into his lungs, filled his eyes with the sight of the print and his head with the sound of words."-Valerie Martin, At Mrs Lippincote's
"OLIVER DAVENANT did not merely read books. He snuffed them up, took breaths of them into his lungs, filled his eyes with the sight of the print and his head with the sound of words. Some emanation fr…"-Valerie Martin, At Mrs Lippincote's
2. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
3. 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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"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
4. No Fond Return of Love
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping o… read more
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5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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6. Pot Luck (Les Rougon-Macquart, #10)
By: Émile Zola , Brian Nelson
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pot Luck, Zola's most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in… read more
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7. Miss Hargreaves
By: Frank Baker
4.16
Format: None pages,
When Norman Huntley and Henry Beddow, sheltering from the rain in a dismal Irish country church, pl… read more
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8. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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9. The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)
By: Carter Dickson
3.66
Format: 176 pages,
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12. Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
By: Reginald Arkell
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Back in print after fifty years Old Herbaceousis a classic British novel of the garden, with a titl… read more
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14. Vera
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more
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15. 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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16. The Two Mrs. Abbotts (Miss Buncle, #3)
By: D.E. Stevenson
3.94
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surp… read more
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17. Oh, qué espléndida música
By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith
4.54
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
¡Oh, qué espléndida la música de los días de la infancia, cuando todo era inmenso, el mundo entero … read more
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18. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
By: A.J. Pearce
4.19
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more
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"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
19. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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20. Everyone and Everything
By: Nadine J. Cohen
4.29
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more
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21. Father
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.06
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more
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"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
22. Tea Is So Intoxicating
By: Mary Essex
3.51
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
“I shall turn this into a tea-house, with lunches if requested, and shall serve pleasant meals in t… read more
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23. Sally on the Rocks
By: Winifred Boggs
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton re… read more
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24. My Husband Simon
By: Mollie Panter-Downes
3.68
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and… read more
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25. Which Way?
By: Theodora Benson
3.63
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
‘There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the light of the skies, if any, was… read more
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26. Strange Journey
By: Maud Cairnes
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and … read more
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27. Tension
By: E.M. Delafield
3.72
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Miss Pauline Marchrose arrives at the Commercial and Technical College of South-West England as the… read more
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