The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories
By: Various
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"There are thirty stories, spanning nearly a century (from 1896–1984). Twelve are taken from the tw…
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1. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
2. The Exiles Return
By: Edmund de Waal , Elisabeth de Waal
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Exiles Return is set in Occupied Vienna in 1954-5. It describes five people who grew up there b… read more
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- fiction
3. Greenery Street
By: Denis Mackail , Rebecca Cohen
3.87
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
PG Wodehouse described this novel as 'so good that it makes one feel that it's the only possible wa… read more
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"Is one changing all the time, then?' she asks. 'Am I changing - without knowing it?"-Denis Mackail, Greenery Street
"Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified. Now, however, we look forward almost eagerly to …"-Denis Mackail, Greenery Street
4. The Birds and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.39
Format: 440 pages, ebook
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birdswas immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. … read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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6. 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
7. Poppies for England
By: Noel Streatfeild , Susan Scarlett
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Noel Streatfeild wrote twelve novels under the pseudony'Susan Scarlett.' Although she herself was d… 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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9. Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #1)
By: Miss Read
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achieved an almost legendary popularity wor… read more
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10. 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
11. Maman, What Are We Called Now?
By: None , None
3.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Maman, What Are We Called Now? was the question nine year-old Sylvie asked her mother in a crowded … read more
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12. Because Of The Lockwoods
By: Dorothy Whipple
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The story is deceptively simple: the entanglement of two families in a northern town called Aldwort… read more
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13. The Carlyles At Home
By: None
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Describes Thomas and Jane Carlyle's life together at 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row, Chelsea. read more
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14. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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15. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more
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"Don’t go,"-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
16. 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
17. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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18. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
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19. 6 Times We Almost Kissed [and One Time We Did]
By: Tess Sharpe
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Six moments lead us to two girls, one kiss, and three little words that were maybe always true in t… read more
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"I'm sorry you had to put all your feelings to the side so you could help me." "I'm not," she says fiercely. "I can, in fact, be mad at you and help you at the same time. It's called being emotionally…"-Tess Sharpe, 6 Times We Almost Kissed [and One Time We Did]
20. The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories
By: Various
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"There are thirty stories, spanning nearly a century (from 1896–1984). Twelve are taken from the tw… read more
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