The Gentlewomen
By: Laura Talbot
4.02
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The hardships and rapid changes produced in England during World War II erode Miss Bolby's self-ima…
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1. The World My Wilderness
By: Rose Macaulay
3.75
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Co… read more
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- british literature
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- world war ii
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"Yes grand' mere" The clear brown eyes flickered and blinked; he looked at once apprehensive and shifty. His grandmother reflected that he knew nothing yet of what his future was to be, he was in her …"-Rose Macaulay, The World My Wilderness
2. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
3. A Far Cry from Kensington
By: Muriel Spark
3.83
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more
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"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
4. The Tortoise and the Hare
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
5. The Return of the Soldier
By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more
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- war
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"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
6. Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane... F… read more
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- fiction
7. Crampton Hodnet
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more
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- british literature
8. The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
By: E.H. Young
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
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9. Blaming
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Jonathan Keates
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentiet… read more
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- fiction
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10. 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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- british literature
11. A Jest of God
By: Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rac… read more
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- fiction
12. The Hours
By: None , Michael Cunningham
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more
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- fiction
13. The Parasites
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.16
Format: 315 pages, ebook
"Wickedly readable... Daphne du Maurier has instinct, with the result that every woman instinctivel… read more
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- fiction
14. Miss Mole
By: E.H. Young
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"Without actually making that confession, her mind went on to imagine what a real love might have been. But such loves do not come in the way of the Miss Moles of this world, and now she was nearly fo…"-E.H. Young, Miss Mole
15. Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford, #5)
By: Mrs. Oliphant , Margaret Oliphant
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carli… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
16. Family Roundabout
By: Richmal Crompton
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1948, this novel is about the life of two families during the inter-war years. W… read more
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17. August Folly
By: Angela Thirkell
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
The village of Worsted is staging Hippolytus under the aegis of the indefatigable Mrs. Palmer. Give… read more
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18. Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
By: Angela Thirkell
3.69
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of R… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie. 'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes. 'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians o…"-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
"...And of course they'll get their milk from us, because Gooch's milk in the village really can't be trusted. I do hope, Henry, the vicarage drains are all right if Martin is to go there, because the…"-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
"Perhaps as one gets older one takes one's joys altruistically,"said John, in turn thinking aloud. "I must say though I sometimes wish I could get it selfishly, just for myself, as Gay used to give me…"-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
"Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it w…"-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
19. The Slaves of Solitude
By: David Lodge , Patrick Hamilton
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has beco… read more
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20. Gone to Earth
By: Mary Webb
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The daughter of a Welsh gypsy and a crazy bee-keeper, Hazel Woodus is happiest living in her forest… read more
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21. Black Narcissus
By: Rumer Godden
3.25
Format: 40 pages,
In the days when it was the General's 'harem' palace, ladies with their retinues and rich clothes c… read more
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22. Bonjour tristesse
By: Françoise Sagan
3.72
Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback
(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more
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- fiction
"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
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24. South Riding
By: Winifred Holtby , Marion Shaw , Shirley Williams
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's greatest novel was published posth… read more
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25. The Reef
By: Edith Wharton
4.47
Format: None pages,
Edith Wharton's insightful 1912 classic was a daring challenge to the social and sexual conventions… read more
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26. 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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- british literature
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- fiction
27. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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28. The Doll Factory
By: Elizabeth Macneal
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more
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- fiction
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory
29. The Gentlewomen
By: Laura Talbot
4.02
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The hardships and rapid changes produced in England during World War II erode Miss Bolby's self-ima… read more
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30. Fenny
By: Lettice Cooper
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Ellen Fenwick travelled to Florence for the first time in April 1933… Following her mother’s death… read more
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