Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths
By: Charlotte Higgins
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ar…
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1. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.05
Format: 243 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ninety-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died—and … read more
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"Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
2. The Killer Inside Me
By: Jim Thompson
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more
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3. The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life
By: Flann O'Brien , Ralph Steadman , Patrick C. Power
2.96
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
The Poor Mouthrelates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious villag… read more
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4. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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6. Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
By: Deborah Curtis , Jon Savage
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is an account of the mesmerising life and tragic death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Divis… read more
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7. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more
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8. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more
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9. Poems and Fragments
By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more
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10. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
11. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
12. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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13. Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)
By: Ada Palmer
4.33
Format: 586 pages, Hardcover
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the … read more
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"Even MASON froze a moment. “Bridger built a satellite that built a robot capable of blasting missiles halfway to the Moon?"-Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)
"Conflict's resurgence does not require us to accept war's thesis and call war's deaths justice just because we wear the words and uniforms of a past which assented to this."-Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)
"We discussed what we want from you now,...you who had power and used it to burn the world. You burned a lot. You didn't just burn trees and cities and each other. You burned our admiration for the go…"-Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)
14. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- historical
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- history
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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
15. Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a soc… read more
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"We die all the time to avoid being killed."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?"-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"Davis calls PTSD living at the whim of your worst memories."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"When Giverny came out with a Gemina B. perfume advertised as with the slogan 'the fatal flower', I wondered if women should aspire to smell like a mutilated corpse."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
16. 84K
By: Claire North
3.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
What if your life were defined by a number? What if any crime could be committed without punishm… read more
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"Tell Philip Arnslade that I'm going to blow his fucking brains out. " "Mr. Arnslade will be most relieved."-Claire North, 84K
"...the secret to success wasn't about being right, merely about appearing to be more right than everybody else."-Claire North, 84K
"...if people were scared of you then you were powerful, and if you were powerful, you mattered. Even if you didn't know what mattering was good for."-Claire North, 84K
"Running changes the city. Sight and sound blazes into slithering sentience, the river is moving black popping with reflected lights of sodium orange, white, green and yellow. The Thames slurps its wa…"-Claire North, 84K
17. The Hippopotamus
By: Stephen Fry
3.68
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and dra… read more
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"I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn."-Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
"In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire."-Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
"A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free."-Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
"[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify"-Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
18. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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19. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
20. Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths
By: Charlotte Higgins
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ar… read more
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21. High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
By: Tom Parfitt
4.34
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
High Caucasus is Tom Parfitt's wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about the 1,000-… read more
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