Peculiar Ground
By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
3.11
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary h…
Want to Read $ 6.99"Leaving Wychwood gave him, as it did each time, the mingled anxiety and exhilaration of a rebirth. Womb-warm and sequestered, it was at once a sanctuary and a place of internment."-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground
"Leaving Wychwood gave him, as it did each time, the mingled anxiety and exhilaration of a rebirth. Womb-warm and sequestered, it was at once a sanctuary and a place of internment."-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground
"The sequestering of the family in the big house feels to those within the walls like a strange curtailment of their liberty. To those in the village it is no great novelty. For them, even before the wall’s building was complete, to stray about the park, without express permission, was to risk having a leg bitten off by a mantrap. Prisoners lament their confinement. Sometimes to be at large is an equal deprivation"-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground
"The sequestering of the family in the big house feels to those within the walls like a strange curtailment of their liberty. To those in the village it is no great novelty. For them, even before the wall’s building was complete, to stray about the park, without express permission, was to risk having a leg bitten off by a mantrap. Prisoners lament their confinement. Sometimes to be at large is an equal deprivation"-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground
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1. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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2. The Graduate (The Graduate, #1)
By: Charles Webb
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house,… read more
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3. The Witches of New York
By: Ami McKay
3.91
Format: 20 pages,
The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth Houseand The Virgin Cureis back with her most beguilin… read more
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- historical fiction
4. The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
By: Penelope Lively
3.36
Format: None pages,
A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women having lunch who share a husband; an old… read more
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5. The Fifth Petal
By: Brunonia Barry
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The New York Timesbestselling author of The Lace Readerreturns to Salem with this spellbinding new … read more
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6. Tipping the Velvet
By: Sarah Waters
4.05
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersona… read more
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"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
7. The High Mountains of Portugal
By: Yann Martel
2.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of a… read more
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8. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
By: Bill Bryson
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a S… read more
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9. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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- contemporary
"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
10. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
11. The Familiars
By: Stacey Halls
3.88
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more
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"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Respect is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
12. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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- adult
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13. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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14. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
15. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- adult
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"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
16. Great Circle
By: Maggie Shipstead
4.11
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. Spanning Prohibition-era M… read more
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"Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"Abandonment stings, even when it means freedom. [Hadley Baxter]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"You don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"We must bend in the wind sometimes.... So much is beyond our control. [Mrs. Fahey]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
17. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
18. Miss Benson's Beetle
By: Rachel Joyce
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more
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"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
19. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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20. A Fatal Crossing
By: Tom Hindle
3.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail from Southampton carrying 2,000 passengers and crew on a wee… read more
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- historical
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21. The Glorious Guinness Girls
By: Emily Hourican
3.33
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From London to Ireland during the 1920s, this glorious, gripping, and richly textured story takes u… read more
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22. Unsheltered
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.64
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and c… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Unsheltered, I live in daylight. And like the wandering bird I rest in thee."-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
"Thatcher wondered what task could be more wearisome than shoring up a stupid man’s confidence in his own wisdom."-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
"Teaching struck Willa as a saintly calling, especially given the pay. But even saints shouldn't be stuck with intro classes forever."-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
"First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival."-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
23. Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more
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24. Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
4.07
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more
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"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point
25. Joan
By: Katherine J. Chen
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? A stunning secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc, in t… read more
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- historical
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- adult
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"What would I gain by being a man?" she says. "A cock, a deeper voice, hair across my chest. I would not become stronger. I am already strong." And, she thinks, I would inherit several weaknesses of m…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
"You must make your own map of the world. Search out your own piece of sky and patch of earth, your own awning to sleep under when it is raining and it feels the sun may never shine again, for there w…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
26. Paris by the Book
By: Liam Callanan
3.16
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Headi… read more
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"Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe-deposit box for civilization."-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book
"Stories provide a form, a mold. And a good story, one that's retold for generations, demands you pour the messy contents of your own life into it to see what happens as it hardens and sets."-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book
"Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there’s a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstor…"-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book
"It’s only with mild surprise I find I don’t so much read anymore, but rather teeter, wonder, take flight, like Pascal, like Madeline, like Bemelmans, like Lamorisse, like my daughters. Like Robert. L…"-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book
27. Luckenbooth
By: Jenni Fagan
3.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a … read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
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"Life is so much more than we can manage it to be, it is so much more sudden than we are able to understand."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"My ma said: only love a man who reads books and understands them properly. If they don't read books don't go their bed. Ever!"-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"Such is the way. It’s like a disease. Love: 80 per cent proof. Risk of death if you drink it. Can send you mad, bad, blind and delirious."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"There is cheering out on the street. There is dancing. People meet and fall in love. Scuffles break out. They drink far too much. All of life is happening."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
28. Barcelona Dreaming
By: Rupert Thomson
3.61
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinke… read more
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29. Peculiar Ground
By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
3.11
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary h… read more
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"Leaving Wychwood gave him, as it did each time, the mingled anxiety and exhilaration of a rebirth. Womb-warm and sequestered, it was at once a sanctuary and a place of internment."-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground
"The sequestering of the family in the big house feels to those within the walls like a strange curtailment of their liberty. To those in the village it is no great novelty. For them, even before the …"-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground
"We who trade in landskips see the world not as it is but as it will be. When I walk in the park, which is not yet a park but an expanse of ground hitherto not enhanced but degraded by my work in it, …"-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground
"They saw how the wall around Eden stretched away on either hand, with only the one opening, as though to guard those within from hungry hordes who might wish to come inside. And next to the cherubim …"-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground
