Life as We Have Known It
By: Co-operative Women’s Guild
3.79
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“You unlocked a drawer and took out a packet of papers. . . . Sometimes, you said, you got a letter…
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1. The Land of Green Ginger
By: Winifred Holtby
3.54
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire.… read more
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2. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more
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3. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more
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4. Mr Fortune's Maggot
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover editions for this ISBN can be found The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-bank clerk… read more
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5. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
By: Bertrand Russell
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. read more
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6. Why I Write
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more
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7. Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Ye… read more
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"We're on a mission from Glod."-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"It's . . . it's like a legend! It has to happen!"-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"The fastest way to travel is to be there already."-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?"-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
8. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
9. Silence for the Dead
By: Simone St. James
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...… read more
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10. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
11. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
12. 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
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"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
13. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
14. 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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"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
15. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
16. 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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17. The Goodbye Cat
By: Hiro Arikawa
3.90
Format: 285 pages, ebook
In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles , se… read more
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"If you can make it in time, you want to say goodbye. Want to say thank you, and I love you."-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat
"If, for instance, I were the one who had to say goodbye, I don’t think I’d want my final hours to be sad. I would want to see my loved ones’ smiles to the very end."-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat
18. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
By: A.J. Pearce
4.19
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more
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"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
19. The Pull of the Stars
By: Emma Donoghue
3.96
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more
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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
20. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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21. Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
By: Omid Scobie
3.31
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the internati… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"Everyone already knows that King Charles might have preferred a life as Queen Camilla's tampon."-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"The King has lived a full life out in the public as an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father, and a philandering husband who d…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"And, despite calls from campaigners for a redesign, one of Britain's highest-honor medals bestowed by King Charles to ambassadors and diplomats for distinguished service still features a depiction of…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"A stubborn eccentric who has spent most of his life waiting and planning for his ascension, even at the cost of his relationships with his own sons, the former Prince of Wales is not only far less po…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
22. The Whispering Muse
By: Laura Purcell
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more
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23. The Chamber
By: Will Dean
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller t… read more
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24. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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25. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
By: Samuel Burr
3.86
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties th… read more
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"As far as she was concerned, it was something people didn't do enough of: to take a few moments to yourself, when your mind was at its clearest. To reflect on the endless possibilities of the day str…"-Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
26. Fifteen Wild Decembers
By: Karen Powell
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more
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27. Bad Men
By: Julie Mae Cohen
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Meet the most irresistible serial killer of the year in this twisty feminist thriller that's as wic… read more
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28. The Kellerby Code
By: Jonny Sweet
3.51
Format: None pages, ebook
Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more
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29. Life as We Have Known It
By: Co-operative Women’s Guild
3.79
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“You unlocked a drawer and took out a packet of papers. . . . Sometimes, you said, you got a letter… read more
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- history
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- historical
- politics
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- sociology
30. A Bite of the Apple: Behind the Scenes at Virago Press
By: Lennie Goodings
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I c… read more
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