The Swiss Summer
By: Stella Gibbons
3.86
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Nevertheless, within three weeks from that very day she was seated in the train; leaving London, le…
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1. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
2. Miss Pym Disposes
By: Josephine Tey
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
3. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
4. The Blue Castle
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.94
Format: 255 pages,
Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Bertie is in it up to his neck when a perfectly harmless visit to … read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
6. Arcadia
By: Tom Stoppard
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- classics
- modern classics
- fiction
- british literature
8. The Camomile Lawn
By: Mary Wesley
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
9. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
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- british literature
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
10. The Greengage Summer
By: Rumer Godden
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more
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11. Lud-in-the-Mist
By: Neil Gaiman , Hope Mirrlees , Douglas A. Anderson
4.43
Format: 269 pages,
Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two… read more
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12. The English Air
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.12
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
A son makes a devastating choice. Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an English mother… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
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- british literature
13. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
By: Katie Lumsden
3.67
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Vic… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
"I said nothing. Too many reasons, too many sins. But he was right. It did not feel wrong. It felt less wrong than anything had in a long time."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
14. 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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- historical fiction
- fiction
- 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
15. 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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- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
16. The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything
By: Fiona Gibson
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Kate is sick of being taken for granted by her husband Vince. It’s bad enough that she allowed hers… read more
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- fiction
17. 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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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
18. Clothes-Pegs
By: Susan Scarlett
3.86
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
19. Family Gathering
By: Elizabeth Cadell
4.17
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
Natalie Rome, timid and retiring, discovers that a new life at forty is not, after all, as difficul… read more
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- historical fiction
- british literature
20. Eliza for Common
By: O. Douglas
4.25
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
The domestic chronicles of a minister's family that bears a remarkable resemblance to the Buchans t… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
21. The Day of Small Things
By: O. Douglas
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
This book is a sequel to the earlier novel, The Proper Place, concerning an aristocratic Scottish f… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
22. The Proper Place
By: O. Douglas
4.33
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proper Place is delightful reading and is Miss O. Douglas at her best. The story deals with the… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
23. The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolph
By: Kate Braithwaite
4.30
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
A compelling historical retelling of the first great scandal to shake America. Victim? Temptress… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
24. Father
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.06
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
25. Extranjeros, bienvenidos
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Cuando Barbara Pym murió en 1980, dejó una cantidad considerable de material inédito. Entre éste, u… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
26. The Native Heath
By: Elizabeth Fair
3.74
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published in the US as Julia Comes Home A widow, at an age when birthdays are best forgotten, wi… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- modern classics
27. Sarah Morris Remembers (Sarah #1)
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.29
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
With the help of her diary, Sarah Morris tries to make a pattern of the lives of her family and her… read more
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- classics
- fiction
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28. The Swiss Summer
By: Stella Gibbons
3.86
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Nevertheless, within three weeks from that very day she was seated in the train; leaving London, le… read more
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29. Vegan Recipes for New Age Men
By: Liz Treacher
4.38
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Lauren really, really needs a break. There’s just one problem: a bearded bohemian is squatting i… read more
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