Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
By: Dexter Palmer
3.74
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed author of Version Control a stunning, powerfully evocative new novel base…
Want to Read $ 9.99"One ought to pretend that there is still hope, in this late season, for astonishment."-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
"One ought to pretend that there is still hope, in this late season, for astonishment."-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
"English gin is a drink for people who think a sin must always be accompanied by its penance."-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
"English gin is a drink for people who think a sin must always be accompanied by its penance."-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
If you liked the historical fiction plot in Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer , here is a list of 7 books like this:
1. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"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
2. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- literature
- fiction
3. Devil's Day
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more
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- fiction
4. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
By: Slavomir Rawicz
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia th… read more
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5. A Botanical Daughter
By: Noah Medlock
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
6. The Book of Secrets
By: Anna Mazzola
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it t… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
By: Dexter Palmer
3.74
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed author of Version Control a stunning, powerfully evocative new novel base… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Dexter Palmer's Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen book and Dexter Palmer's Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 21st century
- 18th century
- audiobook
"One ought to pretend that there is still hope, in this late season, for astonishment."-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
"English gin is a drink for people who think a sin must always be accompanied by its penance."-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
". . . calamity comes for every one of us, and assumes the shape that will be sure to hurt us most."-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
". . . but what they were all waiting for, none could say; nor could one say whether they were all waiting for the same thing, or whether each was waiting for something entirely different."-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
8. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
9. Edith Holler
By: Edward Carey
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the m… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
10. This Is Salvaged
By: Vauhini Vara
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
11. Mother Doll
By: Katya Apekina
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
12. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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13. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
14. Bride of the Tornado
By: James Kennedy
3.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A young woman's secretive midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every gen… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
15. Concerning the Future of Souls
By: Joy Williams
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
16. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Smothermoss
By: Alisa Alering
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. Sing Your Sadness Deep
By: Laura Mauro
4.32
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
British Fantasy Award-winning author, and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro, a leading voi… read more
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- fiction
19. The Testimony of Alys Twist
By: Suzannah Dunn
2.83
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Arrested by her sister for treason, who in her household can Elizabeth trust? 1553: deeply-divid… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. Haunt Sweet Home
By: Sarah Pinsker
3.47
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
21. Sacrificial Animals
By: Kailee Pedersen
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
