Pilgrims
By: Matthew Kneale
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The year 1289. A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pil…
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1. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
By: Antony Beevor
3.91
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more
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2. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
3. Himself
By: Jess Kidd
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Blending strange kindnesses, casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a dark… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"It is the smell of a million mould-blossomed pages, of a thousand decaying bindings, of a universe of dead words."-Jess Kidd, Himself
"It’s the hottest April in living and dead memory. So hot that the crows are flying with their tongues hanging out of their heads."-Jess Kidd, Himself
"She's put him out like a cat a million times, but like a cat he has a habit of slinking back and curling up into the warm corners of her mind."-Jess Kidd, Himself
"And the trees still hold strong. Their canopies drinking every soft grey sky and their roots spreading down deep in the dark, nuzzling clutches of old bones and fingering lost coins. They throw their…"-Jess Kidd, Himself
4. The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Origin… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unles…"-A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
5. Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)
By: John Banville , J.G. Farrell
3.83
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer ma… read more
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- historical fiction
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6. The Past is Myself
By: Christabel Bielenberg
4.12
Format: 323 pages,
Christabel Bielenberg, a niece of Lord Northcliffe, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived thro… read more
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7. Conqueror (Conqueror, #5)
By: Conn Iggulden
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
From a young scholar to one of history's most powerful warriors, this novel tells the story of Kubl… read more
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8. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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- fiction
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9. The Queen of Bedlam (Matthew Corbett, #2)
By: Robert McCammon
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
His epic masterwork, Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town,… read more
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10. Time's Arrow
By: Martin Amis
4.33
Format: None pages,
In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more
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11. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- british literature
12. The Many
By: Wyl Menmuir
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the surface, his move to the isolated village on the coast makes perfect sense. But the experien… read more
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13. Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more
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14. The Day of the Scorpion
By: Paul Scott
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
In "The Day of the Scorpion," Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World W… read more
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15. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- travel
- british literature
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
16. A Week in December
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction. London, the week bef… read more
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17. 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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- british literature
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- novels
18. 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
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19. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
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- historical
- religion
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- historical fiction
- medieval
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
20. 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
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- historical
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"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
21. Hard by a Great Forest
By: Leo Vardiashvili
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more
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22. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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23. Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)
By: S.J. Parris
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
Prague, 1588 A COURT IN TURMOIL The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundari… read more
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24. The Silver Serpent (Ben Hope #25)
By: Scott Mariani
4.48
Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition
Some legends lie buried for a reason… To fight extraordinary odds, you need an extraordinary man… read more
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25. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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26. Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England
By: Richard Beard
3.58
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Dav… read more
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27. A Dutiful Boy
By: Mohsin Zaidi
4.57
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Like Educated with a mo… read more
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28. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country
By: Edward Parnell
3.95
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family t… read more
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29. Only Killers and Thieves (Billy McBride #1)
By: Paul Howarth
4.04
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of po… read more
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30. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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31. Pilgrims
By: Matthew Kneale
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The year 1289. A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pil… read more
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