A Day in Summer
By: J.L. Carr
3.75
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
A Day in Summer is the first novel by J. L. Carr, published in 1963. The story is set in the fictio…
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1. Mr. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #2)
By: Evan S. Connell
4.00
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Walter Bridge is an ambitious lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he s… read more
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"But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds."-Evan S. Connell, Mr. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #2)
"A leaf flattened itself against the window beside his head and leaped away into the darkness, and a feeling of profound despair came over him because everything he had done was useless. All that he b…"-Evan S. Connell, Mr. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #2)
2. 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
3. The Silence in the Garden
By: William Trevor
3.66
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
As governess to her wealthy cousins, the Rollestons, on the eve of World War I, Sarah Pollexfen is … read more
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4. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
5. Love and Summer
By: William Trevor
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
In his characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations of the people o… read more
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6. Angel
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more
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7. The Collector
By: John Fowles
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obse… read more
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8. The Story of Lucy Gault
By: William Trevor
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The stunning new novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and movi… read more
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9. Death in Summer
By: William Trevor
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
A New York TimesBestseller and Notable Book From the winner of the 1999 David Cohen British Literat… read more
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11. Swimming Lessons
By: Claire Fuller
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead o… read more
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12. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five bril… read more
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13. Felicia's Journey
By: William Trevor
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts t… read more
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14. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
15. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
16. Two Lives
By: William Trevor
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
William Trevor's astonishing range as a writer--his humor, subtlety, and compassionate grasp of hum… read more
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17. The Dig
By: John Preston
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk the… read more
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18. Bel-Ami
By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power,… read more
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"In fact living is dying."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!"-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"The only certainty is death."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
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20. 22 Bahnen
By: Caroline Wahl
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre klein… read more
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21. Der große Sommer
By: Ewald Arenz
4.28
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Der Zauber des ersten Erlebens Ein Mann, Friedrich, läuft über einen Friedhof und fragt sich, wi… read more
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22. Kummer aller Art
By: Mariana Leky
4.15
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Alle wirken innerlich blitzblank, nur in unserem Inneren sieht es aus wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa, … read more
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23. Unsettled Ground
By: Claire Fuller
3.78
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it… read more
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24. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)
By: John Banville
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more
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25. Slade House
By: David Mitchell
3.81
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more
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"Coffee’s the elixir of life."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"-David Mitchell, Slade House
26. Mimik
By: Sebastian Fitzek
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ein winziges Zucken im Mundwinkel, die kleinste Veränderung in der Pupille reichen ihr, um das wahr… read more
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27. Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
By: Jonathan Coe
3.93
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid … read more
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"Com’è il morale? In generale"-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"Lei insegna all’università, vero? E quindi conosce William Blake."-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri"-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"Frustrato, Doug tentò un’altra strada. “Ascolta, supponiamo che la maggioranza voti per la Brexit e noi..."-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
28. Utopia Avenue
By: David Mitchell
4.00
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone C… read more
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"I is an Empire of I's."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"Self-pity can lift one's mood."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"America loves exclamation marks."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"Crows tumble like socks in a drier."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
29. West
By: Carys Davies
3.70
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge anci… read more
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30. Last Stories
By: William Trevor
3.96
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes i… read more
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31. A Day in Summer
By: J.L. Carr
3.75
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
A Day in Summer is the first novel by J. L. Carr, published in 1963. The story is set in the fictio… read more
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