The Sugar Mother
By: Elizabeth Jolley
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecili…
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1. Angel
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more
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2. A Summer Bird-Cage
By: Margaret Drabble
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had ad… read more
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5. The Millstone
By: Margaret Drabble
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more
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6. Medea's Curse (Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist, #1)
By: Anne Buist
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Women with… read more
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- australia
7. Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1)
By: Qiu Xiaolong
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A youn… read more
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9. Good Behaviour
By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more
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10. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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11. The Riders
By: Tim Winton
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and seve… read more
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12. The Bonesetter's Daughter
By: Amy Tan
3.43
Format: 232 pages,
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before s… read more
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13. The Hours Before Dawn
By: Celia Fremlin
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
This novel, one of the Virago Crime Classics, combines humour with a look at the danger and suspens… read more
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14. Mr. Scobie's Riddle
By: Elizabeth Jolley
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
A black comedy, this novel deals with a group of people in the care of Matron Price who has two sai… read more
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15. Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
By: Richard Ayoade
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Would it be too much to say that my somewhat-wry prose has changed the way the film community think… read more
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16. The Romanovs: 1613-1918
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
3.17
Format: None pages,
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more
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17. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
18. 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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"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
19. 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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"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
20. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
21. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
22. All Adults Here
By: Emma Straub
3.58
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repres… read more
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"There was no excuse, except for the excuse that perfection was impossible, and failure inevitable."-Emma Straub, All Adults Here
"People said that everyone was born alone and everyone would die alone, but they were wrong. When someone was born, they brought so many people with them, generations of people zipped into the marrow …"-Emma Straub, All Adults Here
"People without children thought that having a newborn was the hardest part of parenthood, that upside down, the day is night twilight zone feedings and toothless wails. But parents knew better. Paren…"-Emma Straub, All Adults Here
23. Meredith, Alone
By: Claire Alexander
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Meredith Maggs has everything a person needs.A best friend in Sadie.A beloved cat in Fred.Jigsaws t… read more
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24. Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
By: Maryla Szymiczkowa
3.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Cracow, 1893. Thirty-eight-year-old Zofia Turbotyńska has assured her husband's rise through the ra… read more
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"Ignacy! - zapłonęła świętym oburzeniem, jak zawsze, kiedy powiedziano jej prawdę prosto w oczy."-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
"Ignacy bywał trudny, to prawda, ale pomysł, że można zamordować męża, wydawał jej się... w złym guście."-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
"Zdrowo - zmarszczył czoło Iwaniec - żaden zmarły nie wygląda zdrowo. Ustanie życia jest objawem zdecydowanego braku zdrowia. Definitywnego, rzekłbym."-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
"Ale ten entuzjazm nie przystoi profesorowi, Ignacy - ofuknęła męża. - W takiej chwili twoją rolą jest zachować się dostojnie, a nie ekscytować głupstwami."-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
25. The Lost Man
By: Jane Harper
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more
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"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
26. The Sugar Mother
By: Elizabeth Jolley
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecili… read more
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