Winter Flowers
By: Angélique Villeneuve
4.15
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
It’s October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife,…
Want to Read $ 9.71"She thinks about the great waste of men."-Angélique Villeneuve, Winter Flowers
"She thinks about the great waste of men."-Angélique Villeneuve, Winter Flowers
"His shoulders. She doesn’t recognize his shoulders either. How could she have thought he’d grown, the evening he came home? It’s the opposite, he’s shrunk."-Angélique Villeneuve, Winter Flowers
"His shoulders. She doesn’t recognize his shoulders either. How could she have thought he’d grown, the evening he came home? It’s the opposite, he’s shrunk."-Angélique Villeneuve, Winter Flowers
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1. Ru
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4.20
Format: None pages, Broche
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2. Moshi moshi
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Gala Maria Follaco
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, … read more
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3. Death Comes to Pemberley
By: None
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwill… read more
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4. All the Birds, Singing
By: Evie Wyld
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more
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5. Monsieur Proust
By: Barbara Bray , André Aciman , Céleste Albaret
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Celeste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world… read more
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6. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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7. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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8. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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9. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
10. The Other Bennet Sister
By: Janice Hadlow
4.16
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shad… read more
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"Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"If I don’t have the genius to create a thing of beauty myself, at least I have the judgement to appreciate the art of others."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
11. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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12. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
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By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
14. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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15. The Man Who Saw Everything
By: Deborah Levy
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more
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"There is a spectre inside every photograph."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
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By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
17. The Coast Road
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3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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18. Orbital
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3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
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"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
19. My Friends
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4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
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"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
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3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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21. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
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3.58
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3.53
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24. The Stranding
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4.21
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4.07
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3.85
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28. Winter Flowers
By: Angélique Villeneuve
4.15
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
It’s October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife,… read more
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"She thinks about the great waste of men."-Angélique Villeneuve, Winter Flowers
"His shoulders. She doesn’t recognize his shoulders either. How could she have thought he’d grown, the evening he came home? It’s the opposite, he’s shrunk."-Angélique Villeneuve, Winter Flowers
"Victory is glorious but levels everything, that’s what she thinks. Victory softens personal pain by creating just one national concern. It doesn’t listen.Victory is glorious but levels everything,"-Angélique Villeneuve, Winter Flowers
29. Jacaranda
By: Gaël Faye
4.60
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Milan, 11 ans, enfant unique, s’ennuie ferme dans une France où les échos des tragédies lointaines … read more
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