You Will Be Safe Here
By: Damian Barr
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There is pain on these pages and poetry too. I left this book bruised yet somehow better for it.”…
Want to Read $ 7.67"The news is a never-ending horror movie and nobody knows how it's going to end"-Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here
"Cape Town, so beautiful she was bored hearing about it and would never go just to spite it."-Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here
"In the water, in the dark. It doesn’t matter whose fingers find whose toes. Nobody can see. The stars are saying nothing."-Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here
"Researching and writing my novel has taken me to some really dark places. It is when you are in these dark places that you can see: there is always hope, there is always love."-Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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- fiction
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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. Oscar and Lucinda
By: Peter Carey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Various Pets Alive and Dead
By: Marina Lewycka
4.19
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamste… read more
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4. Breath
By: Tim Winton
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more
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5. Jessica
By: Bryce Courtenay
3.87
Format: 288 pages,
Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous… read more
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6. The Secret of Nightingale Wood
By: Lucy Strange
3.75
Format: None pages,
1919.Henry has moved to the countryside with her parents and her baby sister, Piglet - all still sc… read more
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7. What Maisie Knew
By: Henry James , Paul Theroux , Patricia Crick
4.07
Format: 248 pages,
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feather… read more
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8. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
9. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
10. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
11. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
By: Bridget Collins
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
12. The Book of Fire
By: Christy Lefteri
3.83
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches ch… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
13. Remote Sympathy
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.31
Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The Book of Hidden Wonders
By: Polly Crosby
3.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A charming, deeply imaginative debut novel about a young girl who is immortalized in her father’s i… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
15. Platform Seven
By: Louise Doughty
3.52
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkw… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"The dead don't bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is no…"-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven
"It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. You…"-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven
16. Mother's Boy
By: Patrick Gale
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. Service
By: Sarah Gilmartin
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Joy Moody is Out of Time
By: Kerryn Mayne
3.96
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. Zijn jongen
By: Carry Slee
3.85
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
Vader Slee heeft het eeuwige leven. Dus dat hij nu overleden is, zal wel weer één van zijn grappen … read more
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20. From a Low and Quiet Sea
By: Donal Ryan
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
21. Saltblood
By: Francesca De Tores
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mot… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
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- lgbt
22. Glasgow Boys
By: Margaret McDonald
4.39
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
A striking debut exploring the power of identity, community and the Scottish working class. This co… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
23. Lakiriboto Chronicles: A History of Badly Behaved Women
By: Ayodele Olofintuade
3.94
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
The story is about three women, one of them has mental illness; they are just girls that were growi… read more
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- contemporary
- africa
- fiction
- lgbt
24. The Wisdom of Sheep: Observations from a Family Farm
By: Rosamund Young
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A touching, wise and surprising chronicle of the rich inner lives of animals, drawn from Rosamund Y… read more
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25. You Will Be Safe Here
By: Damian Barr
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There is pain on these pages and poetry too. I left this book bruised yet somehow better for it.”… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- africa
- south africa
- lgbt
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
"The news is a never-ending horror movie and nobody knows how it's going to end"-Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here
"Cape Town, so beautiful she was bored hearing about it and would never go just to spite it."-Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here
"In the water, in the dark. It doesn’t matter whose fingers find whose toes. Nobody can see. The stars are saying nothing."-Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here
"Researching and writing my novel has taken me to some really dark places. It is when you are in these dark places that you can see: there is always hope, there is always love."-Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here
26. Invisible Boys
By: Holden Sheppard
4.41
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In a small town, everyone thinks they know you: Charlie is a hardcore rocker, who's not as tough as… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
"How bad would it actually be, to end up with a woman? I’m sure I could learn to live with it. And if you close your eyes, well, you could imagine it’s a guy."-Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys
"When the moon rose, I’d wonder if there was a boy somewhere looking at the same moon, maybe in Europe or America or Africa. Would we meet one day and talk about how we were both looking at the moon a…"-Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys
27. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Yank - My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA
By: John Crawley
4.01
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
April 1975. A young Irish-American from Long Island, NY, is on a mission to enlist in an elite unit… read more
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29. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)
By: Mark Billingham
4.41
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more
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- fiction
30. The Bookshop Ladies
By: Faith Hogan
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman… read more
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- contemporary
31. God's Pocket
By: Sven Axelrad
4.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A cabin. A quarry. A crazy plan to run away and write a novel. From the author of the exciting … read more
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