A Little Love, A Little Learning
By: Nina Bawden
4.04
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
It is the year of the Queen's Coronation and Joanna, Kate and Poll who are eighteen, twelve and six…
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1. The Photograph
By: Penelope Lively
3.38
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest novel opens with a snapshot: Kath, before he… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined."-Penelope Lively, The Photograph
"A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is…"-Penelope Lively, The Photograph
2. The Tin Can Tree
By: Anne Tyler
3.57
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings us a novel filled with "emotional pow… read more
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4. The Soul of Kindness
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
' "Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. I… read more
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- fiction
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5. A View of the Harbour
By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more
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- fiction
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6. Family Album
By: Penelope Lively
3.79
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more
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- fiction
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7. The Millstone
By: Margaret Drabble
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
8. 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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- fiction
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"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
9. The Colour
By: Rose Tremain
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's m… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
10. Treasures of Time
By: Penelope Lively
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, a spellbindi… read more
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11. When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie, #3)
By: Kate Atkinson
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Three lives come together in unexpected and thrilling ways in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Go… read more
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12. Learning To Swim
By: Clare Chambers
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again. In dramatic contrast to her ow… read more
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13. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves, #15)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.60
Format: None pages,
A tome of well-mannered high comedy, from the "unrivaled master of the comedy of manners" - Enterta… read more
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14. The Camomile Lawn
By: Mary Wesley
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t… read more
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15. Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
By: Kate Atkinson
3.80
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases:… read more
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"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"What a fantastic form of avoidance being a bride of Christ was."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
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17. Judgment Day
By: Penelope Lively
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers, whom The New York Times Book Review ha… read more
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18. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
19. Still Life
By: Sarah Winman
4.17
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more
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- fiction
"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
20. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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21. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- british literature
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
22. No. 23 Burlington Square
By: Jenni Keer
4.21
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
London, 1927: One house. Three lives. A decision that will change everything. A powerful, unique ti… read more
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23. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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24. 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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25. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
26. A Long Walk in Wintertime
By: Libby Purves
3.93
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
Alice McDonald has escaped all the obvious traps that lie in wait for women. She loves her job but … read more
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27. Perfect Happiness
By: Penelope Lively
3.84
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively Frances, happil… read more
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- british literature
"Why should the kindness of strangers be so unnerving?"-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"She stared with sudden suspicion at Frances. "You haven't been weeping, have you? Music can be fatal."-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"How perverse, she thought, that some of the more intense moments of one's life should take place in intimacy with people one does not know."-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"That's the kind of thing that keeps people sane, she thought at rough moments. Constancy. That night will follow day. That the world at least is reliable."-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
28. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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29. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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30. A Little Love, A Little Learning
By: Nina Bawden
4.04
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
It is the year of the Queen's Coronation and Joanna, Kate and Poll who are eighteen, twelve and six… read more
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