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…
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1. Wish Her Safe at Home
By: Stephen Benatar , John Carey
3.66
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in a… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"A charmed life that carried a curse? Or a cursed life that carried a charm?"-Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home
"I saw that she wasn't wearing a wedding ring. I automatically liked her and despised her and felt sorry for her and was glad."-Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home
"So I stayed with my mother. And she and I experienced a mainly joyless and destructive relationship of hopeless interdependence."-Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home
"My dear Rachel," she answered. "Bristol may be a bit of a backwater but I daresay it can just about stand the shock of scarlet nail polish."-Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home
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- mystery thriller
- british literature
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
3. The Shutter of Snow
By: Emily Holmes Coleman
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In a prose form as startling as its content, "The Shutter of Snow" portrays the post-partum psychos… read more
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- classics
- fiction
4. Haunted Houses
By: Lynne Tillman
2.57
Format: None pages,
This novel chronicles the loneliness of childhood and incipient womanhood, the salvation of friends… read more
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5. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
6. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
7. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- british literature
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
8. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- fiction
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
9. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
10. Waiting for Ted
By: Marieke Bigg
3.23
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
“After all these years, I was surprised to find that we were still in the process of trying to asse… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
11. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- fiction
- horror
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
12. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
13. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
14. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more
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- adult
- fiction
15. Löwenherz
By: Monika Helfer
3.97
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Monika Helfer macht aus Lebenserinnerungen Literatur. Nach „Die Bagage“ und „Vati“: der neue Roman … read more
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16. 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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- mystery thriller
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
17. Open Up
By: Thomas Morris
3.77
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of … read more
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- fiction
18. Dead Animals
By: Phoebe Stuckes
3.61
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- horror
19. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
20. Hungry for What
By: María Bastarós
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of bl… read more
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- horror
