Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
By: Harriet Baker
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and…
Want to ReadIf you liked the nature plot in Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman by Harriet Baker , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. The Little Virtues
By: Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg
4.10
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of h… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Dick Davis's The Little Virtues book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- nonfiction
"It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
2. Rhine Journey
By: Ann Schlee
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the R… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ann Schlee's Rhine Journey book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
3. Inspector Imanishi Investigates
By: Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary
4.08
Format: 234 pages,
In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typicall… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Seichō Matsumoto's Inspector Imanishi Investigates book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
4. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
5. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Barbara Pym's Quartet in Autumn book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
6. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
By: Gillian Rose
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gillian Rose's Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
7. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
8. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Laura Cumming's Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
9. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
Want to Read $ 9.66Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
10. 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
Want to Read $ 9.66Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
"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
11. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- nonfiction
- biography
12. This Could Be Everything
By: Eva Rice
3.83
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nosta… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Eva Rice's This Could Be Everything book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
13. 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
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
"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
14. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Noreen Masud's A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- nature
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
15. The Coast Road
By: Alan Murrin
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Alan Murrin's The Coast Road book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
16. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
17. The Children's Bach
By: Helen Garner
3.53
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Helen Garner's The Children's Bach book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
18. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)
By: Richard Coles
3.87
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Richard Coles's Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3) book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
19. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
20. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
21. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
22. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
23. The Instrumentalist
By: Harriet Constable
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
24. Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
By: Harriet Baker
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
25. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
26. Notes from an Island
By: Tove Jansson
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced … read more
Want to Read $ 18.00Similar categories in Tove Jansson's Notes from an Island book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- nature
27. Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland
By: Jen Hadfield
4.53
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
From the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Highland Book Prize What if the answer to ‘Wher… read more
Want to Read $ 13.79Similar categories in Jen Hadfield's Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- nonfiction
- nature
28. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
29. Small Bomb at Dimperley
By: Lissa Evans
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lissa Evans's Small Bomb at Dimperley book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
30. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Juliet Nicolson's Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
31. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
By: Isabella Hammad
4.74
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative book and Harriet Baker's Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
- nonfiction
- history
