A House in the Country
By: Ruth Adam
3.86
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
"[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted. B…
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1. Honey for Tea
By: Elizabeth Cadell
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Binding tight, no earmarking, pages clean, has library stamps and stickers, nice copy. usps deliver… read more
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- fiction
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2. 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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- literary fiction
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- historical
- humor
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- historical fiction
- modern classics
"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
3. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
4. A Winter Away
By: Elizabeth Fair
4.02
Format: None pages,
"My last secretary was thirty-five," old M. said gloomily, "and no more sense than a child of ten. … read more
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6. 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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7. The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1)
By: None , Brett Helquist , Peter Boston
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
"Tolly" Toseland 7 is rowed up to great-gran Linnet Oldknow by servant Boggis - there has always be… read more
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8. Village Affairs (Fairacre, #13)
By: Miss Read , John S. Goodall
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
Open the gate to Fairacre, America's favorite English village. The English village of Fairacre may … read more
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- historical fiction
- humor
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- british literature
9. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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10. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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11. 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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12. The Camomile Lawn
By: Mary Wesley
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t… read more
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- historical
- world war ii
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13. Faro's Daughter
By: Georgette Heyer
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
THE HIGH STAKES OF LOVE Skilled in the art of card playing, Deborah Grantham, a gambler's daughter,… read more
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14. Maud Martha
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poe… read more
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15. 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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16. South Riding
By: Winifred Holtby , Marion Shaw , Shirley Williams
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's greatest novel was published posth… read more
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17. The English Air
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.12
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
A son makes a devastating choice. Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an English mother… read more
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18. Godmersham Park
By: Gill Hornby
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
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"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park
19. The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical
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- historical fiction
"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
20. Kate Hardy
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.02
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
"Do you know anything about her, Richard?" "Nothing except that she lives in London, is obviousl… read more
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- historical
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21. Alice
By: Elizabeth Eliot
3.52
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
But the servants! Anything might happen to them. They might go in a train to Woolwich and meet the … read more
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- fiction
22. Apricot Sky
By: Ruby Ferguson
4.30
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
"I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom n… read more
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23. 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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24. Murder on Mistletoe Lane (Stella and Lyndy Mystery #5)
By: Clara McKenna
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Ex-pat Stella and British aristocrat Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst are thrilled to celebrate their fir… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
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"Despite his grumbling, Inspector Brown, living up to his title, searched every inch of the Daimler from grill to bumper."-Clara McKenna, Murder on Mistletoe Lane (Stella and Lyndy Mystery #5)
"Stella...tossed aside her napkin and rose. With a sudden clattering of teacups and saucers to the table, so too did Sir Edwin, Lyndy, and her father-in-law. Still not used to the courtesy...Stella pr…"-Clara McKenna, Murder on Mistletoe Lane (Stella and Lyndy Mystery #5)
25. Spring Magic
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.13
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
Frances was free. She had enough money for her holiday, and when it was over she would find useful … read more
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26. Murder While You Work
By: Susan Scarlett
3.73
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Judy sat staring out of the railway carriage window. Of course there was a war on, but could any tr… read more
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27. A House in the Country
By: Ruth Adam
3.86
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
"[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted. B… read more
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28. Silver Ley
By: Adrian Bell
4.19
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
These volumes comprise Bell's celebrated trilogy of novelized memoirs set in the West Suffolk count… read more
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