Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr…
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1. The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.05
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was mar… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"A wise woman curses very sparingly."-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
"He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass."-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
"All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing."-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
"Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart."-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
2. Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies
By: Hilary Mantel , Mike Poulton
4.37
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
Thomas Cromwell. Son of a blacksmith, political genius, briber, charmer, bully. A man with a deadly… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
4. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
5. The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.42
Format: 718 pages,
Philippa Gregory presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as t… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
6. The Luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
7. The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: The love of a king When Mary Boleyn comes to court as… read more
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8. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more
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9. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
10. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
11. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- british literature
12. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- british literature
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
13. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"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
14. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
15. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
16. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
17. The World of Wolf Hall
By: Sam Binnie
3.76
Format: 53 pages, None
A reading guide to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. read more
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- historical
18. Wolf Hall Companion
By: Lauren Mackay
4.53
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
An accessible but hugely authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Man… read more
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- historical
19. The Marriage Portrait
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.01
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. The author of award-winning Hamnet… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"May I keep this?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
20. Hamnet
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.20
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare'… read more
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- british literature
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- historical fiction
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"He has, Anges sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live."-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
"And there, by the fire, held in the arms of his mother, in the room in which he learnt to crawl, to eat, to walk, to speak, Hamnet takes his last breath. He draws it in, he lets it out. Then there is…"-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
"Ahora esa persona se ha perdido para siempre. Va a la deriva, no reconoce su propia vida. Está desamarrada, extraviada. Es una persona que llora si no encuentra un zapato, si cuece la sopa más de lo …"-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
"The sound that comes out of him is choked and smothered, like that of an animal forced to bears great weight. It is a noise of disbelief, of anguish. Anges will never forget it. At the end of her lif…"-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
21. 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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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"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
