Christmas Traditions: A Celebration of Festive Lore
By: George Goodwin
3.69
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
A stocking-filler-sized compilation of Christmas lore, revealing the intriguing origins of the trad…
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1. A Literary Christmas: An Anthology
By: None , British Library
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
For as long as Christmas has been celebrated, poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect… read more
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2. Stig of the Dump
By: Clive King
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Barney is a solitary eight-year-old, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the … read more
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3. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
4. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households pre… read more
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5. The Toy Makers
By: Robert Dinsdale
3.25
Format: None pages, ebook
Do you remember when you believed in magic? The Emporium opens with the first frost of winter. It i… read more
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6. The Bedlam Stacks
By: Natasha Pulley
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after susta… read more
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7. Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England
By: Stuart Maconie
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Just where and what is "Middle England?" Is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais makes out? From S… read more
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8. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.17
Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188 Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, … read more
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"…but youth yearned to youth."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"We belong to the race that knows Joseph"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"Death grows friendlier as we grow older."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"It takes all kinds of people to make a world."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
9. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
10. The Secret History of Christmas
By: Bill Bryson
3.84
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… read more
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11. Mr. Flood's Last Resort
By: Jess Kidd
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Go… read more
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"Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe."-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort
"The wind grabbed a handful of sand and scattered it like bright confetti along the hard-packed, sea-scoured, deserted beach. The sky had a newly rinsed look, the clouds spun and wrung out on high."-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort
"My sister said that when the tide was out you could walk all the way to America; the waves pulled back that far. So far that the starfish forgot there ever was an ocean and stiffened with dismay. So …"-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort
12. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.41
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more
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13. 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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14. Magpie Lane
By: Lucy Atkins
3.97
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, p… read more
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15. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more
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16. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
17. Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery
By: Agatha Christie
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An all-new collection of winter-themed stories from the Queen of Mystery, just in time for the holi… read more
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18. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
19. Murder at the Theatre Royale (Christmas Mystery, #2)
By: Ada Moncrieff
3.18
Format: 253 pages, ebook
It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extr… read more
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20. The Library
By: Bella Osborne
4.35
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two different generations. Two unusual people. Thrown together to save their local library. Tom is… read more
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"Dog are awesome. They don't care if you're clever or not; they just like to hang out with you"-Bella Osborne, The Library
"If she'd realised the last time she was hugged was significant she would have paid more attention, committed it to memory so she could recall the sensations at will for the many times since, when all…"-Bella Osborne, The Library
21. Five Winters
By: Kitty Johnson
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
A bighearted novel about motherhood, friendship, moving on, and love of all kinds. Ever since Beth… read more
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22. The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
By: Sean Lusk
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing... Leadenhall… read more
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23. Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime
By: Agatha Christie
3.90
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.Autumn is the season … read more
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24. British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
By: Ysenda Maxtone Graham
3.81
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were … read more
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25. By Ash, Oak and Thorn
By: Melissa Harrison
3.95
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The breath-taking children's debut from acclaimed nature writer and Costa Award-shortlisted novelis… read more
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26. Christmas Traditions: A Celebration of Festive Lore
By: George Goodwin
3.69
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
A stocking-filler-sized compilation of Christmas lore, revealing the intriguing origins of the trad… read more
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27. A Poem for Every Winter Day
By: Allie Esiri
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous collection, A Poem for Every Winter Day, you will find v… read more
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28. By Rowan and Yew
By: Melissa Harrison
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As autumn arrives, Moss, Sorrel, Burnet and Dormer decide to return home to Ash Row to unravel a ri… read more
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"Look, we all want to be brave, don't we?' said Moss. 'Well, this is how we do it: we keep on trying, even if we don't know if it's working, or how things will turn out. That's what courage means."-Melissa Harrison, By Rowan and Yew
29. Festive Spirits: Three Christmas Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.36
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
The perfect Christmas gift: three festive tales from the brilliant pen of Kate Atkinson. read more
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