A House on the Rhine
By: Frances Faviell
4.22
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
The rubbish in the once-lovely garden, the broken toys, the bicycles against the toppling fence, th…
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1. 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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"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
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
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4. Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)
By: Alan Furst
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is re… read more
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5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6. Wonder Cruise
By: Ursula Bloom
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Ann Clements is thirty-five and single, and believes nothing exciting will ever happen to her. Then… read more
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7. 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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- fiction
8. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
9. 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
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10. Queen Lucia (Lucia, #1)
By: E.F. Benson
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Queen Lucia is the first book in the Mapp and Lucia series. Mrs. Lucas, Lucia to her intimates, res… read more
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11. Miss Mapp (Lucia, #2)
By: E.F. Benson
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
E. F. Benson's strikingly original comic creation Miss Mapp is an arch-schemer and social climber f… read more
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12. The Zimmermann Telegram
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more
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13. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
14. Dark Star (Night Soldiers, #2)
By: Alan Furst
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already und… read more
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16. My Early Life, 1874-1904
By: William Manchester , Winston S. Churchill
4.25
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
Here, in his own words, are the fascinating first thirty years in the life of one of the most provo… read more
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"My education was interrupted only by my schooling."-William Manchester, My Early Life, 1874-1904
"The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE."-William Manchester, My Early Life, 1874-1904
"Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen."-William Manchester, My Early Life, 1874-1904
"You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth."-William Manchester, My Early Life, 1874-1904
17. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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18. Minerva (The Six Sisters, #1)
By: M.C. Beaton , Marion Chesney
4.28
Format: 315 pages,
Eldest of the lovely Armitage sisters, raven-haired Minerva, is sent by their hunting-mad father vi… read more
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19. 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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20. 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
21. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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22. Oh, qué espléndida música
By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith
4.54
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
¡Oh, qué espléndida la música de los días de la infancia, cuando todo era inmenso, el mundo entero … read more
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23. One Enchanted Evening
By: Katie Fforde
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Step into the world of Katie Fforde where love, romance and the happiest of happy endings are just … read more
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24. The Home
By: Penelope Mortimer
3.68
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A tragi-comedy published in 1971 that looks at the experience of a woman escaping a broken marriage… read more
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25. The Native Heath
By: Elizabeth Fair
3.74
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published in the US as Julia Comes Home A widow, at an age when birthdays are best forgotten, wi… read more
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26. 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
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27. 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
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28. A House on the Rhine
By: Frances Faviell
4.22
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
The rubbish in the once-lovely garden, the broken toys, the bicycles against the toppling fence, th… read more
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29. A Harp in Lowndes Square
By: Rachel Ferguson
3.49
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
In the schoolroom in Lowndes Square, a child, in her ugly, unsuitable frock of plum-coloured satin,… read more
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