Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
By: Gyles Brandreth
3.81
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.…
Want to Read $ 2.99"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, zynders to zynders: even those who protest that they never go to funerals have to in the end."-Gyles Brandreth, Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, zynders to zynders: even those who protest that they never go to funerals have to in the end."-Gyles Brandreth, Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
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1. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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2. Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin, #8)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head, she … read more
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3. The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London… read more
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4. If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
By: Jon McGregor
3.89
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
In this Booker Prize–nominated “dream of a novel,” ordinary middle-class lives converge and collide… read more
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"Say excuse me but, really, I am actually very much in love with you."-Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
"I remembered the promises we'd made to each other, me and Sarah and Simon, and I wondered if I'd been naive to think we could keep them."-Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
"I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it."-Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
"But there are people too he says, everywhere there are people and I think it is easier to hold hands with people than it is with angels, yes?"-Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
5. The Possession of Mr Cave
By: Matt Haig
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Terence Cave, intellectual, music-lover and owner of Cave Antiques, has experienced more than his s… read more
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6. 206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)
By: Kathy Reichs
3.98
Format: None pages,
Cold and alone, bound hands to feet, Tempe Brennan regains consciousness locked in a dark cell--or … read more
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7. Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
By: Susie Dent
4.06
Format: 340 pages,
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8. You Died: The Dark Souls Companion
By: None , None
3.67
Format: 220 pages,
Award-winning journalists Keza MacDonald and Jason Killingsworth embark on a far-ranging exploratio… read more
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9. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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12. 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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"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
13. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
By: Tim Harford
4.12
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more
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14. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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15. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
By: Janice Hallett
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more
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16. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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17. Paradais
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.64
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more
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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
18. Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book
By: Jimmy Carr
4.06
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians* In his mid-twen… read more
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"Here’s my advice for dealing with family trauma: accept the apology you’re never going to get and move on. There, I just saved you £25,000 in therapy. You’re welcome."-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book
"Have you ever been to the Parthenon in Athens? If you’ve seen a photo, it’s nice, right? The photo is nice, but the real thing is fucking amazing. That’s like you. The best photo of you is nothing li…"-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book
"But here’s the thing about being human: if we put off doing anything risky for long enough, fear will attach itself. Then what happens is that fear will attract even more fear until the fear becomes …"-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book
"If you can be with a loved one when they die, you should. Her hands getting cold as the circulation shuts down, her breathing getting heavy, the death rattle. Bearing witness to a death is an incredi…"-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book
19. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)
By: Robert Thorogood
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more
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20. A Class Act: Life as a Working-Class Man in a Middle-Class World
By: Rob Beckett
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television he’s the laddie… read more
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21. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
22. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
By: Claire North
3.70
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more
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"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
23. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more
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24. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
By: A.J. Pearce
4.19
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more
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"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
25. Traitors Gate (William Warwick, #6)
By: Jeffrey Archer
4.18
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
THE TOWER OF LONDON… Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on ear… read more
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26. The Rise
By: Ian Rankin
3.65
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more
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27. Old Rage
By: Sheila Hancock
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sheila Hancock looked like she was managing old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhoo… read more
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28. Gin Palace (The Accidental Medium Book 2)
By: Tracy Whitwell
4.04
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
After a fast paced introduction to the world of clairvoyance, ghost busting, mystery and murder, Ta… read more
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29. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
30. Who Sent Clement? (Clement, #1)
By: Keith A. Pearson
4.40
Format: 503 pages, Kindle Edition
Beth Baxter, owner of a not-very-successful book shop, is planning her marriage to Karl — or, at le… read more
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31. Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
By: Gyles Brandreth
3.81
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.… read more
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"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, zynders to zynders: even those who protest that they never go to funerals have to in the end."-Gyles Brandreth, Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
