12 must-read classics books like Strange Journey by Maud Cairnes

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Strange Journey

By: Maud Cairnes

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and …

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Cover of First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5) by Jasper Fforde

1. First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.02

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

It's been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a diffi… read more

Similar categories in Jasper Fforde's First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5) book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Dead. Never been that before. Not even once."

-Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)

"Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?"

-Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)

"Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."

-Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)

"Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations."

-Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)

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2. Crampton Hodnet

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Pym's Crampton Hodnet book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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3. Miss Hargreaves

By: Frank Baker

4.16

Format: None pages,

When Norman Huntley and Henry Beddow, sheltering from the rain in a dismal Irish country church, pl… read more

Similar categories in Frank Baker's Miss Hargreaves book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • classics
  • magical realism
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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4. Keeping Up Appearances

By: Rose Macaulay

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Rose Macaulay's Keeping Up Appearances book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • modern classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

5. The Scapegoat

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.16

Format: 315 pages, ebook

By chance, John and Jean--one English, the other French--meet in a provincial railway station. Thei… read more

Similar categories in Daphne du Maurier's The Scapegoat book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

6. Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)

By: Jasper Fforde

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop the hostile takeover of Hamlet by Orphelia? Can Swind… read more

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7. The Love-Child

By: Edith Olivier

4.18

Format: 368 pages,

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8. The Widow of Bath

By: Margot Bennett

3.43

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found him… read more

Similar categories in Margot Bennett's The Widow of Bath book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"...hatred destroyed with the speed of a bonfire in a wooden house. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"The judge's manner would have made any man doubt the efficacy of lonely truth. Evidence would be demanded."

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"...I...advise you that it is the duty of every citizen to expose and so help to destroy evil. [Judge Gregory Bath]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"Life didn't stop, and a mind given too much to thoughts of death would create nothing but its own tomb. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

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9. The Fortnight in September

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more

Similar categories in R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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10. Clothes-Pegs

By: Susan Scarlett

3.86

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Clothes-Pegs book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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11. Father

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

4.06

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth von Arnim's Father book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father

"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father

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12. Tea Is So Intoxicating

By: Mary Essex

3.51

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

“I shall turn this into a tea-house, with lunches if requested, and shall serve pleasant meals in t… read more

Similar categories in Mary Essex's Tea Is So Intoxicating book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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13. Sally on the Rocks

By: Winifred Boggs

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton re… read more

Similar categories in Winifred Boggs's Sally on the Rocks book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
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14. My Husband Simon

By: Mollie Panter-Downes

3.68

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and… read more

Similar categories in Mollie Panter-Downes's My Husband Simon book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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15. One Afternoon

By: Siân James

4.10

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

The preface to One Afternoon is by Emma Schofield, the editor of the Welsh Arts Review. She writes … read more

Similar categories in Siân James's One Afternoon book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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16. One Year's Time

By: Angela Milne

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It's New Year's Day and Liza is painting her floor. Walter, who she met at the party the night befo… read more

Similar categories in Angela Milne's One Year's Time book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • fiction
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17. Strange Journey

By: Maud Cairnes

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and … read more

Similar categories in Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • classics
  • magical realism
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
  • fantasy
Cover of Forest Silver: A Lake District Story by E. M. Ward

18. Forest Silver: A Lake District Story

By: E. M. Ward

3.94

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Invalided out of the War and seeking solitude, Wing-Commander Richard Blunt joins a flow of evacuee… read more

Similar categories in E. M. Ward's Forest Silver: A Lake District Story book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Miss Granby's Secret: or The Bastard of Pinsk by Eleanor Farjeon

19. Miss Granby's Secret: or The Bastard of Pinsk

By: Eleanor Farjeon

4.13

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

How much did Aunt Addie know? How much did she feel? Aunt Addie, better known to the world at l… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Farjeon's Miss Granby's Secret: or The Bastard of Pinsk book and Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey

  • fiction

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