A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846
By: Alethea Hayter
3.75
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
June 1846. As London swelters in a heatwave - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glam…
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1. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By: Henry James , None
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children ab… read more
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2. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
3. The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside Out
By: Angela Liddon
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
After a decade of struggling with an eating disorder and subsisting on diet, low-calorie processed … read more
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4. Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more
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5. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more
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"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
6. The Glass Pearls
By: Emeric Pressburger
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more
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7. Miss Marple's Final Cases
By: Agatha Christie
3.00
Format: None pages,
A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories...First, the mystery man in th… read more
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8. The Other Side of Silence (Bernie Gunther, #11)
By: Philip Kerr
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther i… read more
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9. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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10. 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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11. Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
An elderly lady is on her way to Scotland Yard to report several murders in her village. "It is ver… read more
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12. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
13. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
14. Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets
By: Clair Wills
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric o… read more
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15. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
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16. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
By: Katie Lumsden
3.67
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Vic… read more
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"But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
"I said nothing. Too many reasons, too many sins. But he was right. It did not feel wrong. It felt less wrong than anything had in a long time."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
17. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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18. 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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19. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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20. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
21. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
By: Miranda Seymour
3.85
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean… read more
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22. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
By: Annabel Abbs
3.92
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, … read more
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"God, I think blasphemously, is in a sip of coffee."-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
"I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples stil…"-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
"The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of frui…"-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
"But then, one bright morning, I walked out through woods of pine and birch. Foxgloves and wild clematis and briar roses were bursting from the earth. Birdsong shook the air. Swifts snipped at the sky…"-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
23. The Silk House
By: Kayte Nunn
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Weaving. Healing. Haunting. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a cen… read more
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24. The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
By: Susannah Stapleton
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing o… read more
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25. The Red Tenda of Bologna (PENGUIN MODERN)
By: John Berger
4.05
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A drea… read more
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26. Four Gardens
By: Margery Sharp
3.94
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
She announced herself, rather self-consciously, as Mrs. Henry Smith, and he replied that Mrs. Cornw… read more
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27. The Turning Point: 1851. A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer--immersin… read more
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28. A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846
By: Alethea Hayter
3.75
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
June 1846. As London swelters in a heatwave - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glam… read more
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- nonfiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
29. Miss Willmott's Ghosts
By: Sandra Lawrence
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ellen Ann Willmott was a remarkable woman whose achievements in horticulture, botany, landscape arc… read more
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30. Smoky-House
By: Elizabeth Goudge
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spring had come again to Faraway, and the men and women and children of the village, as they went a… read more
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