19 must-read fiction books like Drift by Caryl Lewis

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Drift

By: Caryl Lewis

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'A truly beautiful and haunting novel, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN, author o…

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1. Pigeon

By: None

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and… read more

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2. 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

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Water book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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5. 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

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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

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6. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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7. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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9. 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

Similar categories in Kate Sawyer's This Family book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Falling Animals

By: Sheila Armstrong

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Armstrong's Falling Animals book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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11. The Illusions

By: Liz Hyder

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At a time of extraordinary change, two women must harness their talents to take control of their ow… read more

Similar categories in Liz Hyder's The Illusions book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • magical realism
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. The Blue Book of Nebo

By: Manon Steffan Ros

4.16

Format: 156 pages, ebook

Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more

Similar categories in Manon Steffan Ros's The Blue Book of Nebo book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

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13. 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

Similar categories in Libby Page's The Lifeline book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • british literature
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14. Ghost Mountain

By: Ronan Hession

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Mountain is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly and the way in w… read more

Similar categories in Ronan Hession's Ghost Mountain book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • book club
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone

By: Alex McCarthy

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

'Small Things Like These meets Under Milk Wood - this slim but devastating novel captures an entire… read more

Similar categories in Alex McCarthy's The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Drift

By: Caryl Lewis

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'A truly beautiful and haunting novel, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN, author o… read more

Similar categories in Caryl Lewis's Drift book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • book club
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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18. Cwlwm

By: Ffion Enlli

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Stryffaglu trwy ei hugeiniau yn Llundain mae Lydia, yn difaru'r nosweithiau meddw, yn pendroni dros… read more

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19. This Motherless Land

By: Nikki May

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) retelling of Mansfield Park,… read more

Similar categories in Nikki May's This Motherless Land book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Rare Singles book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • british literature
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21. The Story of the Forest

By: Linda Grant

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It's 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the… read more

Similar categories in Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest book and Caryl Lewis's Drift

  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature

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