The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
By: Alan Bennett
3.96
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Foot…
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1. Murder in the Cathedral
By: T.S. Eliot
3.72
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel… read more
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- fiction
"Friendship should be more than biting Time can sever."-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
"A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident."-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
"Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended"-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
"Meanwhile the substance of our first act Will be shadows, and the strife with shadows."-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
2. Mrs Fox
By: Sarah Hall
4.15
Format: 399 pages, ebook
'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Killing and Dying: Stories
By: Adrian Tomine
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
4. Homeland and Other Stories
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.87
Format: None pages,
Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more
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5. Giacomo Joyce
By: James Joyce
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentar… read more
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6. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
By: Thom Jones
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the wo… read more
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7. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more
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8. My Son the Fanatic
By: Hanif Kureishi
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more
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9. The Inner Room
By: Robert Aickman
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more
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10. Queenie
By: Alice Munro
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Unknown Binding
When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a windo… read more
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11. Vile Bodies
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more
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12. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
13. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
14. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
By: Eleni Kyriacou
4.18
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more
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- fiction
15. Paradise
By: Edna O'Brien
3.44
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
By: Milan Kundera
3.70
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- fiction
17. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
By: Sylvia Plath
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
19. The Silence Factory
By: Bridget Collins
3.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more
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- fiction
20. Come Rain or Come Shine
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.65
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Dante and the Lobster
By: Samuel Beckett
3.32
Format: None pages, None
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- fiction
- humor
- short stories
22. Terrific Mother
By: Lorrie Moore
3.54
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
23. The Country Funeral
By: John McGahern
3.84
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
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- fiction
24. Fairy Tales
By: Marianne Moore
3.25
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
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25. The Cheater's Guide to Love
By: Junot Díaz
3.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
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- contemporary
26. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
By: Alan Bennett
3.96
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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- lgbt
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- contemporary
27. The Victim
By: P.D. James
3.76
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expecte… read more
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- novella
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- fiction
28. An Elegy for Easterly
By: Petina Gappah
3.51
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more
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- fiction
29. Cosmopolitan
By: Akhil Sharma
3.32
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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- contemporary
30. Daughters of Passion
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.40
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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31. A River in Egypt
By: David Means
3.07
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
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