20 must-read fiction books like Gentleman's Relish by Patrick Gale

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Gentleman's Relish

By: Patrick Gale

3.59

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating new collection of stories by the author of Richard & Judy-bestseller Notes from an …

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1. The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more

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  • fiction
"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

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2. Jennings' Diary (Jennings, #5)

By: Anthony Buckeridge

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hah-ooh cinosrepus! 'Selbanev, Nosnikta, Senoj-Nitram,' said Jennings. 'They're the names of people… read more

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  • fiction
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3. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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  • fiction
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4. A House for Mr Biswas

By: V.S. Naipaul

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more

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  • fiction
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5. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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  • fiction

7. Hangover Square

By: Patrick Hamilton

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Hamilton (1904-1962) captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romanticall… read more

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8. Girl Meets Boy

By: Ali Smith

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new s… read more

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9. Pigs in Heaven

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about fa… read more

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10. The Looking Glass War

By: John Le Carré

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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11. Nothing to Be Frightened Of

By: Julian Barnes

4.41

Format: None pages,

Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George,Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that … read more

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12. When God Was a Rabbit

By: Sarah Winman

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When God was a Rabbitis an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Sp… read more

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13. Brat Farrar

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Listening Length: 7 hours and 55 minutes Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the ident… read more

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14. The L-Shaped Room (Jane Graham, #1)

By: Lynne Reid Banks

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this bestselling classic novel which became a famous film, Jane Graham, alone and pregnant, retr… read more

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15. Instructions for a Heatwave

By: Maggie O'Farrell

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richl… read more

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16. Restoration

By: Rose Tremain

3.71

Format: 32 pages,

Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when… read more

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17. 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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  • fiction
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se 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

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18. The Offing

By: Benjamin Myers

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more

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  • fiction
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

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19. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • fiction
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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20. 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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  • fiction
"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

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21. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

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  • fiction
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22. 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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  • fiction
"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

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23. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

Cover of Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1) by Dan Jones

24. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

By: Dan Jones

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more

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  • fiction
"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"

-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

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25. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Magpie Lane

By: Lucy Atkins

3.97

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, p… read more

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  • fiction
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27. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

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  • fiction
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

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28. 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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  • fiction
"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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29. The Night Watch (DS Max Craigie, #3)

By: Neil Lancaster

4.33

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

He’ll watch you. A lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the nort… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Gentleman's Relish

By: Patrick Gale

3.59

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating new collection of stories by the author of Richard & Judy-bestseller Notes from an … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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4.24

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Saara Turunen

3.74

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3.67

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