Silver Ley
By: Adrian Bell
4.19
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
These volumes comprise Bell's celebrated trilogy of novelized memoirs set in the West Suffolk count…
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1. Love and War in the Apennines
By: Eric Newby
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An account of the author's experiences, 28 years ago, as an escaping POW in Italy during World War … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water."-Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines
"It is not pleasant to be disliked,' he said, 'and it is very unpleasant to be German and to know that one is hated because one is German and because, collectively, we are wrong in what we are doing. …"-Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines
"But in spite of the stones it was marvellous to be working up on the Pian del Sotto: going out on to it while the morning star was still shining brilliantly in a sky that was the colour of blue-black…"-Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines
2. The Little Grey Men
By: B.B.
4.12
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The last four gnomes in Britain live by a Warwickshire brook. But when one of them decides to go a… read more
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- nature
- british literature
3. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
4. 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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- british literature
5. Shades of Grey
By: Jasper Fforde
4.11
Format: 559 pages,
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next-- a brilliant new novel about a world where social ord… read more
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6. The Red House Mystery
By: A.A. Milne
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more
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- british literature
7. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- british literature
8. Tarka the Otter
By: Henry Williamson , None
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Tarka the otter pursues an active life, sometimes playful and sometimes dangerous, in the Devonshir… read more
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9. A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time #2)
By: Anthony Powell
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The second novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.… read more
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10. A Room with a View
By: E.M. Forster
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more
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11. A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1)
By: Anthony Powell
3.07
Format: None pages,
Who is Widmerpool? The question that is to dog Nicholas Jenkins crystallizes as he sees the gawky f… read more
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12. South Riding
By: Winifred Holtby , Marion Shaw , Shirley Williams
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's greatest novel was published posth… read more
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13. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
14. The Pavilion in the Clouds
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above… read more
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- british literature
15. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- british literature
16. Godmersham Park
By: Gill Hornby
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more
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- british literature
"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park
17. 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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- british literature
"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
18. Kate Hardy
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.02
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
"Do you know anything about her, Richard?" "Nothing except that she lives in London, is obviousl… read more
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- british literature
19. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
20. Wavewalker: Breaking Free
By: Suzanne Heywood
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free
21. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story
By: Polly Morland
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
22. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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- british literature
23. Old Rage
By: Sheila Hancock
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sheila Hancock looked like she was managing old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhoo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
24. A House in the Country
By: Ruth Adam
3.86
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
"[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted. B… read more
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- british literature
25. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
26. The Cherry Tree
By: Daisaku Ikeda
4.18
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
An Asian mother ties an explanation of family history to a poetic lesson on the changing seasons wh… read more
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- memoir
- british literature
27. Slightly Foxed #80: ‘Arrows of Revelation’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Silver Ley
By: Adrian Bell
4.19
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
These volumes comprise Bell's celebrated trilogy of novelized memoirs set in the West Suffolk count… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- british literature
29. Slightly Foxed 79: 'U and I and Me’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl… read more
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- nonfiction
