Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
By: Nino Strachey
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An “illuminating” ( Daily Mail , London) exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsb…
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1. My Brilliant Career
By: Miles Franklin
3.80
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
"My Brilliant Career" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th cen… read more
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"life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera- it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache"-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
"This is not a romance — I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]"-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
"I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement."-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
"I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through life…"-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
2. Less Than Angels
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is surely appropriate that anthropologists, who spend their time studying life and behavior in v… read more
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- british literature
"Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn’t show a healthy curiosity about one’s neighbours?"-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
3. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
By: James Shapiro
4.06
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 aff… read more
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- history
- biography
- british literature
- nonfiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
4. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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- british literature
5. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more
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"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
6. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more
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- british literature
7. 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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8. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more
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- british literature
9. Invitation to the Waltz
By: Rosamond Lehmann
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-colo… read more
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10. Manderley Forever
By: Tatiana de Rosnay
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Timesbestselling author T… read more
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11. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- history
- biography
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
12. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
13. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
14. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
15. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- nonfiction
16. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- british literature
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
17. The Foghorn Echoes
By: Danny Ramadan
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more
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- queer
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes
18. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
19. A Botanical Daughter
By: Noah Medlock
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more
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"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
20. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
21. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them
By: Polly Curtis
4.33
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
'Brilliant . . . I love this book' LEMN SISSAY 'A must-read book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Extraordinar… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
24. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
25. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." ―Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- books about books
- literary criticism
"He [Cade] promises to make England great again. How will he do that? He shows the crowd at once: he attacks education."-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"Shakespeare grappled again and again with a deeply unsettling question: how is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?"-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"...although the absurdity of the demagogue’s rhetoric was blatantly obvious, the laughter it elicited did not for a minute diminish its menace. Cade and his followers will not slink away because the …"-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"The absurdity of these campaign promises is not an impediment to their effectiveness. On the contrary: Cade keeps producing demonstrable falsehoods about his origins and making wild claims about the …"-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
26. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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- history
- british literature
27. Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
By: Eleanor Herman
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, re… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Another method to identify misogyny is to picture a well-known politician as belonging to the opposite sex and see where that takes you. For instance, imagine Donald Trump as a woman. Let's call her …"-Eleanor Herman, Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
28. Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
By: Nino Strachey
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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- biography
- literary criticism
- british literature
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- books about books
- queer
29. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
By: Tom McGrath
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more
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- history
30. Selected Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube a… read more
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31. Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
By: Emily Van Duyne
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A nuanced, intelligent, and passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunder… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"What follows is my best effort to shed as much light as possible on events that have not simply been forgotten or left in the dark, but relegated to the attic, or the ash can, or the metaphorical dar…"-Emily Van Duyne, Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
