Appetite
By: Philip Kazan
3.77
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Florence, 1466. A lust for life, a passion for power and a taste for adventure... In Florence, e…
Want to Read"The flesh was sweet, not fishy at all, and the texture was a little like young rabbit. The tartness of verjuice fitted into the earthy richness of cinnamon like a sword into a scabbard."-Philip Kazan, Appetite
"The flesh was sweet, not fishy at all, and the texture was a little like young rabbit. The tartness of verjuice fitted into the earthy richness of cinnamon like a sword into a scabbard."-Philip Kazan, Appetite
"I had been rolling the cherry around in my mouth, letting it slip across my tongue. There was the flicker of salt from Tessina's fingers, and her own flavor: saffron, violets, the liquor of oysters."-Philip Kazan, Appetite
"I had been rolling the cherry around in my mouth, letting it slip across my tongue. There was the flicker of salt from Tessina's fingers, and her own flavor: saffron, violets, the liquor of oysters."-Philip Kazan, Appetite
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1. Holy Fools
By: Joanne Harris
3.60
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the year 1605 a young woman, hiding from her past, takes up the veil becoming Soeur Auguste. Fiv… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Love not often, but forever."-Joanne Harris, Holy Fools
2. Black Swan Green
By: David Mitchell
3.97
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Trees're always a relief, after people."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"His skin was blotched as a dying banana."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"The song instantly insisted it'd never existed."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
3. The Devil of Nanking
By: Mo Hayder
3.92
Format: 471 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Like the thrillers of Thomas Harris and Philip Kerr, Mo Hayder's riveting new novel animates the da… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no …"-Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking
"I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has be…"-Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking
"I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows. I thought of what was underneath it all - I thought of the electricty ca…"-Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking
4. The Firemaker (China Thrillers, #1)
By: Peter May
3.88
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Margaret Campbell, a Chicago forensic pathologist, has been invited by the Chinese government to te… read more
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- fiction
5. Wonderful Tonight
By: Penny Junor , Pattie Boyd
3.16
Format: 288 pages,
A Q&A with Pattie Boyd, Author of Wonderful Tonight Why are you writing the book now? I have been a… read more
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6. Alex (Verhœven, #2)
By: Pierre Lemaitre
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Qui connait vraiment Alex? Elle est belle. Excitante. Est-ce pour cela qu'on l'a enlevee, sequestre… read more
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- fiction
7. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
9. The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
By: Megan Whalen Turner
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)
By: S.J. Parris
3.55
Format: 288 pages,
Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more
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11. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
By: Jenny Colgan
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Life is sweet in this heartwarming tale of a little chocolate shop in Paris, by the bestselling aut… read more
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12. The Silent Companions
By: Laura Purcell
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more
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13. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more
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14. The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves
0.00
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Windcomes a riveting new masterpi… read more
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15. The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more
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- fiction
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
16. A Reliable Wife
By: Robert Goolrick
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, sayin… read more
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17. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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18. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
19. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
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20. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
21. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
22. The Foundling
By: Stacey Halls
3.99
Format: 400 pages, ebook
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
23. Threadneedle (The Language of Magic, #1)
By: Cari Thomas
3.97
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Within the boroughs of London, nestled among its streets, hides another city, filled with magic. … read more
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"She wasn't sure what to do next. They were so close. The room so hot. Their anger alive and temporarily frozen like the sparks of only moments ago; Attis's breath fast and heavy and the scent of him …"-Cari Thomas, Threadneedle (The Language of Magic, #1)
"She could feel his breath on her neck, the heat of him. Her legs were stuck to the floor. The dress hung on her, open. She turned around slowly. It was like losing her free will again, only this time…"-Cari Thomas, Threadneedle (The Language of Magic, #1)
24. The Confession
By: Jessie Burton
3.91
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"[...] And women are always like that.' 'What do you mean?' 'Well, all the women I know who've left long-term relationships in their thirties checked out of it long before they actually did. They went…"-Jessie Burton, The Confession
25. City of Vengeance (Cesare Aldo #1)
By: D.V. Bishop
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
City of Vengeance is an explosive debut historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Flo… read more
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- italy
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- historical fiction
26. Search History
By: Amy Taylor
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more
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- romance
- fiction
27. The Glass Woman
By: Caroline Lea
3.69
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
1686, ICELAND. AN ISOLATED, WINDSWEPT LAND HAUNTED BY WITCH TRIALS AND STEEPED IN THE ANCIENT SAGAS… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
"Love opens us, as an earthquake opens the earth."-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman
"In love, every one of us is a cross, every one of us a Christ."-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman
"She is a woman capable of violence. She is a woman who did what was necessary. She is a woman who has survived."-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman
"We were but a step away from the vagrants and exiles who are left to beg by the roads until they were murdered by the cold and buried by the snow."-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman
28. A Promise of Ankles (44 Scotland Street, #14)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.07
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
The latest, delectably witty installment of Alexander McCall Smith's sumptuous 44 Scotland Street s… read more
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"Mothers need to be ambitious for their children otherwise. . .well, nobody would ever learn the piano."-Alexander McCall Smith, A Promise of Ankles (44 Scotland Street, #14)
29. The Chef's Secret
By: Crystal King
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the le… read more
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- romance
- italy
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- food
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"We decided that the clergy would dine on wild boar, cooked in wine, rose vinegar, and sugar, with the snout and ears sliced thinly and served with a choice of mustard or onion sauce. It was one of Ba…"-Crystal King, The Chef's Secret
"But his eyes were kind and he treated Bartolomeo as an equal, which surprised the apprentice, who helped the secondo stuff thick slabs of tuna with grated cheese, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and saffro…"-Crystal King, The Chef's Secret
"Your Majesty, the next course will be cold dishes. An insalata of fennel and one of thistles with salt and pepper; fresh split almonds; muscatel pears; stuffed dates; pear and pistachio pastries; a p…"-Crystal King, The Chef's Secret
"The entire meal had a bird and egg theme, including magnificent castles with birds that flew out when the tower tops were cut off, roasted peacocks that still looked alive, swans made of sugar paste,…"-Crystal King, The Chef's Secret
30. Appetite
By: Philip Kazan
3.77
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Florence, 1466. A lust for life, a passion for power and a taste for adventure... In Florence, e… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Philip Kazan's Appetite book and Philip Kazan's Appetite
- romance
- italy
- historical
- food
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 15th century
- food and drink
"The flesh was sweet, not fishy at all, and the texture was a little like young rabbit. The tartness of verjuice fitted into the earthy richness of cinnamon like a sword into a scabbard."-Philip Kazan, Appetite
"I had been rolling the cherry around in my mouth, letting it slip across my tongue. There was the flicker of salt from Tessina's fingers, and her own flavor: saffron, violets, the liquor of oysters."-Philip Kazan, Appetite
"There were the subtle malts and brans of the crust and the pallid no-taste of good old Florentine bread. The snaking sour-sweet of the beef, like a slab of porphyry shot through with crystalline onio…"-Philip Kazan, Appetite
"The flavors settle across my tongue in shapes and colors. Sweetness pools, smug and tarry, like pitch seeping from a sun-warmed beam. Quicksilver balls of sourness skitter for a moment, then freeze i…"-Philip Kazan, Appetite
