18 Top novels books like A Weekend With Claude by Beryl Bainbridge

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A Weekend With Claude

By: Beryl Bainbridge

3.31

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

While spending the weekend in the country with friends, Lily tries to convince her new boyfriend th…

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1. Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)

By: Jane Gardam

3.94

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, … read more

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"-Laikas bėga. -Nesu tikras, kad jis žino kur."

-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)

"Apie praeitį, nebent ji būtų be galo laiminga, vaikai kalbėti nelinkę."

-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)

"If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child."

-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)

"Kai tik atsiranda merginų, egzaminų pažymiai ima blogėti. Kuo karštesnė aistra, tuo prasčiau sekasi mokslas."

-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)

Cover of Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1) by Georges Simenon, David Bellos

2. Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

By: Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The first novel in the famous Inspector Maigret series. What Maigret sought, and what he waited … read more

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"Sono cose di cui non ci si vanta, cose che a parlarne farebbero sorridere e che pure richiedono una certa dose di eroismo."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

"Arrivava solido come il granito, e da quel momento pareva che tutto dovesse spezzarsi contro di lui, sia che avanzasse, sia che restasse piantato sulle gambe leggermente divaricate."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

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3. 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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4. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

4.00

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more

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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

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5. 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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Cover of The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras, None, Diệp Anh

6. The Ravishing of Lol Stein

By: Marguerite Duras , None , Diệp Anh

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life--and a voyeur… read more

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7. The Plot Against America

By: Philip Roth

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more

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8. The New York Trilogy

By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more

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9. Offshore

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more

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10. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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11. Il taglio del bosco

By: Giorgio Bassani , Carlo Cassola , CASSOLA

3.34

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Torino, Einaudi, 1965, 16mo brossura con copertina illustrata, pp. 110 (Letture per la scuola media… read more

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12. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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13. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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14. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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15. Deaf Sentence

By: David Lodge

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man's ef… read more

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16. The Portable Virgin

By: Anne Enright

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

The characters in this fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to so… read more

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17. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

18. I Pitard

By: Georges Simenon , Eliana Vicari

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Finalmente, dopo tanti anni passati a comandare quelle degli altri, il capitano Lannec e riuscito a… read more

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19. Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under the Greenwood Treeis the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dew… read more

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20. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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21. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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22. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

3.84

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more

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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

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23. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

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24. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

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25. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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26. Blood & Sugar

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

3.93

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded… read more

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27. The Librarian

By: Salley Vickers

3.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Clea… read more

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28. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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29. Baron Bagge

By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged comman… read more

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30. A Weekend With Claude

By: Beryl Bainbridge

3.31

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

While spending the weekend in the country with friends, Lily tries to convince her new boyfriend th… read more

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Jane Gardam

3.94

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The Tortoise and the Hare

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3.94

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Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

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Muriel Spark

3.83

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