A Touch of Mistletoe
By: Barbara Comyns
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
This is the story of Blanche and Vicky, who as children read Ethel M. Dell and Elinor Glyn up a tre…
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1. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- 20th century
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
2. The Tortoise and the Hare
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- female authors
- british literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
3. Someone at a Distance
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectato… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table."-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catc…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation th…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it,…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
4. Rhine Journey
By: Ann Schlee
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the R… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- british literature
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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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
6. Primera memoria
By: Ana María Matute
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Con la guerra civil, <>, como telon de fondo, Primera memoria, Premio Nadal 1959, narra el paso de … read more
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- fiction
- novels
- classics
- 20th century
7. The Home-Maker
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Although this novel first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the p… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
- novels
8. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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- classics
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- 20th century
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9. Great Granny Webster
By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
10. Good Behaviour
By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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11. 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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12. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- female authors
- literature
- british literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
13. Family Roundabout
By: Richmal Crompton
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1948, this novel is about the life of two families during the inter-war years. W… read more
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14. The Lady Vanishes
By: Ethel Lina White
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more
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15. The Hours Before Dawn
By: Celia Fremlin
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
This novel, one of the Virago Crime Classics, combines humour with a look at the danger and suspens… read more
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16. Doreen
By: Barbara Noble
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
Describes the mind of a child torn between her mother, whom she leaves behind in London, and the co… read more
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17. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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18. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
21. The Dry Heart
By: Natalia Ginzburg
4.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more
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- classics
- 20th century
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"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
22. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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- literature
23. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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24. 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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- classics
- female authors
- british literature
25. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"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
26. Mistletoe Malice
By: Kathleen Farrell
2.75
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive cl… read more
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- classics
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- 20th century
- fiction
27. A Touch of Mistletoe
By: Barbara Comyns
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
This is the story of Blanche and Vicky, who as children read Ethel M. Dell and Elinor Glyn up a tre… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
28. A Helping Hand
By: Celia Dale
3.60
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Josh and Maisie Evans are Good Samaritans and enjoy lending a helping hand to lonely elderly ladies… read more
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- classics
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- british literature
29. The Jealous One
By: Celia Fremlin
4.08
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Rosamund and Geoffrey's new neighbor, Lindy, is smart, good-looking, friendly, and delightful in ev… read more
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- classics
- fiction
30. Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence
By: Avril Horner
4.58
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narrativ… read more
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