Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool
By: Simon Thomas
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Join a host of female writers in celebrating the sunshine months of the year. As a sister volume to…
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1. Summer
By: Edith Wharton
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more
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2. Frenchman's Creek
By: Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson
3.98
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside wi… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"You have no hobby then?" "Moths interest me, my lady."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I am notorious," said Dona, "for making unfortunate remarks."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"—in reality it was escape she wanted, escape from her own self—"-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I had become like a prisoner in chains, and the dungeon was deep."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
3. China Court: The Hours of a Country House
By: Rumer Godden
3.98
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
For more than half a century, Rumer Godden has been known as one of the finest and subtlest writers… read more
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- classics
- 20th century
- british literature
4. Crooked Heart
By: Lissa Evans
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
5. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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- classics
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6. Lady Living Alone
By: Norah Lofts , Peter Curtis , Peter Curtis
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Unknown Binding
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- fiction
7. The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
By: Lucy Worsley
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Murder -- a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And… read more
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8. Uncle Silas
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Victor Sage
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed tod… read more
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9. 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. The Lady Vanishes
By: Ethel Lina White
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more
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12. The Greengage Summer
By: Rumer Godden
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more
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13. The Camomile
By: Catherine Carswell
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Of my writing he said, 'I see. It is like the camomile - the more it is trodden on the faster it gr… read more
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14. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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- british literature
"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
15. Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
By: Muriel Spark
3.71
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
The British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of novels by female authors who en… read more
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- classics
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16. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat … read more
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17. Forest Silver: A Lake District Story
By: E. M. Ward
3.94
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
Invalided out of the War and seeking solitude, Wing-Commander Richard Blunt joins a flow of evacuee… read more
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18. The Examiner
By: Janice Hallett
4.06
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more
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19. Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool
By: Simon Thomas
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Join a host of female writers in celebrating the sunshine months of the year. As a sister volume to… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
20. Small Bomb at Dimperley
By: Lissa Evans
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more
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