16 Best contemporary books like Hotel Milano by Tim Parks

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Hotel Milano

By: Tim Parks

3.50

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the firs…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Hotel Milano by Tim Parks , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories by Sebastian Faulks

1. A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of…"

-Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

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2. The Blue Afternoon

By: William Boyd

3.78

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Boyd, the author of A Good Man in Africa and Brazzaville Beach, here gives us something entirely ne… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Love is not a feeling. It does not belong to that category of bodily experience which would include, for instance, pain."

-William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

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3. The New Mrs Clifton

By: Elizabeth Buchan

3.90

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

As the Second World War draws to a close, Intelligence Officer Gus Clifton surprises his sisters at… read more

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  • fiction

4. Family Album

By: Penelope Lively

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Ostende - 1936, Sommer der Freundschaft

By: Volker Weidermann

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ein belgischer Badeort mit Geschichte und Glanz: Hier kommen sie alle noch einmal zusammen, die im … read more

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6. Judgment Day

By: Penelope Lively

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers, whom The New York Times Book Review ha… read more

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7. Spiderweb

By: Penelope Lively

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and… read more

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8. Consequences

By: Penelope Lively

3.00

Format: 107 pages,

The Booker Prize-winning author's first novel since The Photographis a sweeping saga of three gener… read more

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9. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de 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

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11. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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  • fiction
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12. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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14. Allmen und Herr Weynfeldt

By: Martin Suter

3.68

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

In einer Bar begegnet Allmen einem kultivierten Herrn seines Alters – Adrian Weynfeldt. Der Name is… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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  • fiction
"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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16. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

By: Richard Coles

3.90

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more

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  • fiction
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17. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Paris Echo

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Here is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems to hold the e… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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21. The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction

By: Robert Goddard

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Light Over Liskeard

By: Louis de Bernières

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future.Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Bonjour, Sophie

By: Elizabeth Buchan

4.15

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to star… read more

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25. The Three Graces

By: Amanda Craig

3.75

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruth, Diana and Marta are three very different friends having a last 'adventure before dementia' af… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Lifeline

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 391 pages, ebook

Everybody needs saving sometimes… For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alon… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Hotel Milano

By: Tim Parks

3.50

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the firs… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. The Dubrovnik Book Club

By: Eva Glyn

3.90

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

In a tiny bookshop in Dubrovnik’s historic Old Town, a book club begins…Newly arrived on the sun-dr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Konur

By: Steinar Bragi

3.30

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Óhugnanleg samtímahrollvekja um unga listakonu sem snýr heim til Íslands eftir nokkurra ára dvöl er… read more

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  • fiction
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30. The Cameraman

By: Matthew Kneale

3.47

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Former cinema camera director Julius Sewell journeys across Europe with his family to his sister's … read more

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  • fiction
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31. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power

By: Sasha Swire

3.47

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more

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25 Best fiction books like Hotel Milano by Tim Parks

Transform Your Habits

A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

Sebastian Faulks

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The Blue Afternoon

William Boyd

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The New Mrs Clifton

Elizabeth Buchan

3.90

Family Album

Penelope Lively

3.79

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21 best-selling fiction books like A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2) by Richard Coles

Transform Your Habits

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

Mark Billingham

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

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