Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties
By: Peter Hennessy
3.70
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in th…
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1. The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)
By: Andrew Taylor
3.75
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historic… read more
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"One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark."-Andrew Taylor, The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)
2. New Grub Street
By: George Gissing
3.78
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had exp… read more
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"Walker's a fool and Quarmby's an ass,' remarked her father."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"Well, Maud made a mistake, let us say. Dolomore is a clown, and now she knows it."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"Confound it! It's just because nobody does anything that things have come to this pass!"-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"The sum of their faults was their inability to earn money; but, indeed, that inability does not call for unmingled disdain."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
3. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
4. A Pale View of Hills
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.79
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378. In his highly acclaim… read more
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"Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them."-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
"It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing."-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
"I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly"-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
"The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different."-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
5. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
6. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
7. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
By: Dominic Sandbrook
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandb… read more
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8. The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
By: Simon Heffer
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly a… read more
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9. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
By: Evan Osnos
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction … read more
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10. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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11. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more
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12. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By: Frank Dikötter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more
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13. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
14. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
By: Frank Dikötter
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of… read more
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15. White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, 1964-70
By: Dominic Sandbrook
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Dominic Sandbrook traces his history of Britain from the election of Harold Wilson through the hear… read more
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16. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
By: Frank Dikötter
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1… read more
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17. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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18. Waterland
By: Graham Swift
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Unknown Binding
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunte… read more
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19. 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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20. Howards End
By: E.M. Forster
3.96
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more
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"So never give in,"-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Tulips were a tray of jewels."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
21. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
22. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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23. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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24. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
25. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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26. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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27. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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28. Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
By: Tim Shipman
4.31
Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition
The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Th… read more
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29. Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain’s Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again
By: Duncan Weldon
4.15
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
'Here's the history that really matters' Financial Times The UK is, at the same time, both one o… read more
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30. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himse… read more
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"This may be the last stage of imperialism–having appropriated everything else from its colonies, the dead empire appropriates the pain of those it has oppressed."-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
"[The] crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from the 'heart of empire' to 'occupied colony'. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and coloniz…"-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
"This desire to experience the vicarious thrills of humiliation is possible only in a country that did not know what national humiliation is really like. But the problem with wish-fulfilment is that y…"-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
"Even as a game of chance, however, Brexit is especially odd. It is a surreal casino in which the high-rollers are playing for pennies at the blackjack tables while the plebs are stuffing their life s…"-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
31. Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties
By: Peter Hennessy
3.70
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in th… read more
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