Return to Night
By: Mary Renault
3.73
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
From the First UK Edition dust jacketRenault's fourth novel concerns a woman doctor of thirty-four,…
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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
By: Virginia Woolf
3.75
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more
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- romance
- classics
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"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
2. Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.02
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understan…"-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
"It's because it's the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now …"-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
"With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's und…"-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
"She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I …"-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
3. The Children of Jocasta
By: Natalie Haynes
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more
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- classics
- fiction
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4. Shadow Tag
By: Louise Erdrich
3.30
Format: 215 pages,
"Erdrich is a true original. [and] one of our major writers." -Washington Post Book World Shadow Ta… read more
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- fiction
5. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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6. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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7. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.18
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more
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8. The Girl in His Shadow (Nora Beady, #1)
By: Audrey Blake
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The story of one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her Rais… read more
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- historical fiction
9. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.09
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more
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- fiction
"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
10. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more
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11. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- classics
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
12. Yellow Wife
By: Sadeqa Johnson
4.43
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Wench and Twelve Years a Slave, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman … read more
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13. Banyan Moon
By: Thao Thai
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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- fiction
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"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
14. Dear Little Corpses (Josephine Tey, #10)
By: Nicola Upson
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It takes a village to bury a child.1 September, 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Bri… read more
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15. Return to Night
By: Mary Renault
3.73
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
From the First UK Edition dust jacketRenault's fourth novel concerns a woman doctor of thirty-four,… read more
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