Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories
By: John Updike
3.31
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
These John Updike short stories include "Friends from Philadelphia", "Sunday Teasing", "The Persist…
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1. Village Christmas (Fairacre, #6)
By: Miss Read
4.19
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
A family new to Fairacre is viewed with suspicion by its elderly neighbors, the Waters sisters, unt… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
2. 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
3. Journey's End
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.86
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editi… read more
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"You must always think of it like that if you can. Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps."-R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End
4. The Rotters' Club
By: Jonathan Coe
3.96
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescen… read more
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"...he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"ja niin elämässäni kaikki tuntuu tänään muuttuneen, jopa kaupunki muuttaa muotoaan ympärilläni, minä istun Paradise Placella ja katson Muistojen saliin päin ja yhtäkkiä kaikki viittaa minuun ja Cicel…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face an…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
5. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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- fiction
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
6. The Pavilion on the Links
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Two solitary men, once as close to being friends as men of their temperament could ever be, meet ag… read more
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- fiction
7. Scale
By: Will Self
3.95
Format: 768 pages,
'Some people lose their sense of proportion; I've lost my sense of scale.' The short story 'Scale' … read more
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- fiction
8. God's Dice
By: Martin Amis
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Two sombre stories from "Einstein's Monsters". One is about a middle-aged Pole living in Ladbroke G… read more
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- fiction
9. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
10. Matilda's England
By: William Trevor
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
These three short stories add up to a whole. Set before, during and after World War II, they form a… read more
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12. The Angel and Other Stories
By: Patrick McGrath
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Contains The Angel, The Black Hand of the Raj, The Arnold Crombeck Story and The E(rot)ic Potato, a… read more
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- fiction
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14. The Portobello Road and Other Stories
By: Muriel Spark
3.58
Format: 376 pages,
Four stories that illustrate Muriel Spark's unique wit and wisdom: 'The Portobello Road', 'Bang-ban… read more
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15. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ambrose Bierce wrote stories so dramatically different from those of his contemporaries that they h… read more
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16. Why I Write
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more
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17. The Escape and Other Stories
By: Katherine Mansfield
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Collection of five exquisite, evocative stories of human behaviour which capture brief but signific… read more
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18. Death of a Nobody
By: Georges Simenon
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Two baffling investigations for Maigret on the boulevards of Paris. Georges Simenon's greatest crea… read more
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19. Survivors
By: Terry Nation
3.84
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A virus has wiped out 95 per cent of the world's population in just a few weeks, leaving the remain… read more
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20. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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- fiction
"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
21. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
22. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
23. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
24. A Long Night at Abu Simbel
By: Penelope Lively
3.65
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Three short stories, the first of which focuses on a group of people trapped in an Egyptian airport… read more
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25. The Rise
By: Ian Rankin
3.65
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more
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26. Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories
By: John Updike
3.31
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
These John Updike short stories include "Friends from Philadelphia", "Sunday Teasing", "The Persist… read more
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- 20th century
27. Der Prophet / Der Narr / Der Wanderer
By: Kahlil Gibran
3.88
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
This is an abridged version of Gibran's most famous work, "The Prophet", plus selections from "The … read more
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28. Goodbye to All Cats
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.05
Format: 96 pages, Mass Market Paperback
‘Cheaper and more effective than Valium’.1 Offers ‘relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-lo… read more
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29. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
30. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
By: Mick Herron
4.28
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more
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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
31. Ram Chander's Story
By: Mark Tully
3.47
Format: 59 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from 'No Full Stops in India', 1992. read more
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