Slightly Foxed 79: 'U and I and Me’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl…
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1. Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.95
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enc… read more
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"Our memories change as we do."-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
"Most of us can only see the world we know."-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
"Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds."-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
"The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so."-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
2. Letter from New York: BBC Woman's Hour Broadcasts
By: Helene Hanff
3.87
Format: 172 pages,
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- nonfiction
- essays
3. Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
By: Rosemary Sutcliff
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
Memoir of her childhood, of having rheumatoid arthritis, growing up in a wheelchair - a push chair,… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Frontier Wolf
By: Rosemary Sutcliff
3.74
Format: 384 pages,
As punishment for his poor judgment, a young, inexperienced Roman army officer is sent to Northern … read more
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5. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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- literature
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
6. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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7. Stet: An Editor's Life
By: Diana Athill
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a gui… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
8. Is He Popenjoy?
By: Anthony Trollope
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The year 1874 saw the conclusion in London of a much publicized court case involving an unlikely pr… read more
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- literature
9. Orient Express
By: Christopher Hitchens , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople,… read more
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- literature
10. Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.25
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
The titles of the first story in this collection—'Jeeves Takes Charge'— and the last—'Bertie Change… read more
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- literature
"Employers are like horses — they require management."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
11. 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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- literature
12. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
By: John Baxter
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Immoveable Feastand We'll Always Have Pariscomes a guided tour of the most beaut… read more
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13. The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
By: Martin Edwards
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century… read more
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14. Envelope Poems
By: Emily Dickinson , Jen Bervin , None
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Although a very prolific poet--and arguably America's greatest--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) publish… read more
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15. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
3.99
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more
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"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
16. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
17. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
By: Mick Herron
4.13
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more
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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
18. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.46
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more
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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
19. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)
By: Janice Hallett
3.63
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more
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20. The Paris Review, Issue 246, Winter 2023
By: Emily Stokes
3.89
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
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21. The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024
By: Emily Stokes
4.07
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Jhumpa Lahiri on the Art of Fiction: “My question is, What makes a language yours, or mine?” Alice … read more
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22. The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2023
By: Lia Leendertz
4.27
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Reconnect with the seasons in Britain and Ireland with this month-by-month guide to the world aroun… read more
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- nonfiction
23. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
By: James Crews
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An Indie Poetry Bestseller! Featured in People Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and… read more
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24. The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
By: Anne Fadiman
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of … read more
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- essays
"To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall."-Anne Fadiman, The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
"Going through a dead parent's memorabilia is a hazardous undertaking; there is a fine line between pleasure and pain."-Anne Fadiman, The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
"When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner, the convergence of hi…"-Anne Fadiman, The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
25. Winter Solstice: An Essay
By: Nina MacLaughlin
4.25
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neigh… read more
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- essays
26. Slightly Foxed 79: 'U and I and Me’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl… read more
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- journal
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
27. A Countryman's Spring Notebook
By: Adrian Bell
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A seasonal selection from the weekly column Bell wrote from 1950 to 1980 for the Eastern Daily Pres… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Old leaves are galloping over the new grass."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"She could no more escape the conviction that rhubarb was a herb of all the virtues than the modern generation can avoid the illusion that Lady Chatterley's Lover is great literature."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"March' is a sharp word, brusque and bracing, like its month. 'January', "February'; they meander like rivers; 'April' is like the sound of raindrops on the windowpane; but 'March' is a gust of wind f…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"There was wonder in that insubstantial pointer; it gave me news that no clockwork could do. Time was not a fixed series of moments, it said, but something moving like a flower that grows, growing per…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
28. A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
By: Adrian Bell
4.63
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
In this third volume of our seasonal quartet, Adrian Bell takes us into the summer countryside, to … read more
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"He sings till the cherries begin to colour,' he said as we listened to the nightingale."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
"How often we have to thank the sense of beauty of some former country worker for sparing a sapling when cutting a hedge or taking a slip of some doomed tree and setting it 'quick i' the earth' to blo…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
"A very old wisteria rose snaking over an arbour. Nearby were tiny roses on a wall, mere tufty buttons that smelled of one's childhood in a horse-pace village. Thin bricks were set on edge around a be…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
"How long had his widow lived on here, beside the silent forge, with the grass growing up against the closed double doors, and six-feet-tall mallows drowning the hen-run, the potato-plot, the drying-g…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
29. Collected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)
By: Laurie Lee
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his… read more
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