Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
By: Hilary Mantel
3.91
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
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1. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
By: Walter Kaufmann
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Ja… read more
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- history
- essays
2. The Heather Blazing
By: Colm Tóibín
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappea… read more
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3. Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
By: Simon Winder
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Long View
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
'The Long View', a revealing portrait of a marriage, is the ingenious construction of a couple's st… read more
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5. More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion Mystery, #13)
By: Margery Allingham
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion investigates two deaths in the eccentric Palinode hou… read more
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6. Felix Holt: The Radical
By: George Eliot , Lynda Mugglestone
3.71
Format: 545 pages, Paperback
When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortu… read more
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"To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished."-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
"There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life."-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry o…"-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
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. Aspects of the Novel
By: E.M. Forster
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Forster's lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronolo… read more
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9. Icons of England
By: Bill Bryson
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and… read more
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10. Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
By: Colin Dexter
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
In short mysteries so brilliantly plotted they'll confound the cleverest of souls, Inspector Morse … read more
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11. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
12. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- history
- memoir
- essays
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
13. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- literary criticism
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
14. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
15. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- literary criticism
16. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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17. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
18. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
19. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By: Clare Hunter
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more
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- history
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
20. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
21. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
By: Eleanor Parker
4.17
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more
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- history
"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
22. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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- history
- memoir
23. No Judgment: Essays
By: Lauren Oyler
3.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more
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- short stories
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- criticism
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"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays
24. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
By: Sally Adee
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more
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- history
25. Three Fires
By: Denise Mina
3.73
Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more
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26. The Black Box: Writing the Race
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define… read more
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- history
- essays
- literary criticism
27. The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
By: Anita Anand
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
28. Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
By: Hilary Mantel
3.91
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestsel… read more
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- nonfiction
- criticism
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- books about books
- literary criticism
29. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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30. Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
By: Jenny Diski
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, selected London Review of Books e… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
"Indolence has always been my most essential quality. ‘Essential’ in the sense that it is the single quality I am convinced I possess and by which I can be recognised and remembered, and also in the s…"-Jenny Diski, Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
31. Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask)
By: Kate Muir
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
An eye-opening, no-holds-barred guide to the perimenopause and menopause written by campaigner, jou… read more
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