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…
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1. The House on the Strand
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.83
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agre… read more
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"The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me."-Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand
2. The House of the Red Slayer (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #2)
By: Paul Doherty , Paul Harding
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In December 1377 a great frost has the city in its icy grip; even the Thames is frozen from bank to… read more
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3. The Choke
By: Sofie Laguna
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A mesmerising, harrowing and ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles Franklin winner. Abando… read more
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4. Lady of Hay
By: Barbara Erskine
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
This masterfully crafted first novel tells the spellbinding story of a contemporary woman who disco… read more
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5. 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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6. The Nightingale Gallery (Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #1)
By: Paul Doherty
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father… read more
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7. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
8. 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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- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"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
9. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
10. The October Man (Rivers of London, #7.5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.00
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead w… read more
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"Das Leben ist zu kurz, um schlechten Wein zu trinken. - Quoted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"-Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man (Rivers of London, #7.5)
11. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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12. Devotion
By: Hannah Kent
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more
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- audiobook
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."-Hannah Kent, Devotion
"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"-Hannah Kent, Devotion
13. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- audiobook
14. 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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15. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- audiobook
16. They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story
By: Peter James
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
'One of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world' - Lee ChildPete… read more
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17. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- biography
- nature
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
18. What Abigail Did That Summer (Rivers of London, #5.3)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.24
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker. It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been … 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. 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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"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
21. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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22. The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1)
By: Jill Johnson
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
I've always been better with plants than people . . . Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical … read more
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23. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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24. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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25. A Sicilian Affair
By: Susan Lewis
4.36
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Catie returns home from a stint in prison desperate for a fresh start. But her empty house, the sec… read more
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26. 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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27. The Silence Factory
By: Bridget Collins
3.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more
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28. Eliza Mace (Eliza Mace Mysteries, #1)
By: Sarah Burton
3.45
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Enola Holmes meets the novels of Laura Purcell in this Victorian mystery featuring quick-witted wou… read more
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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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- horticulture
- gardening
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- nature
- audiobook
