17 Best fiction books like Good-Bye, Gemma (Gemma, #4) by Noel Streatfeild

Cover of Good-Bye, Gemma (Gemma, #4) by Noel Streatfeild

Good-Bye, Gemma (Gemma, #4)

By: Noel Streatfeild

3.76

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

As her cousins find success singing and dancing on the stage, Gemma wins a coveted acting role in a…

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1. Five Go Adventuring Again (Famous Five, #2)

By: Enid Blyton

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

There's a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prov… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
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2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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  • fiction
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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3. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)

By: T.H. White

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
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4. Things a Bright Girl Can Do

By: Sally Nicholls

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stri… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
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5. David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling

4.03

Format: 882 pages, Paperback

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more

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  • fiction
"Trifles make the sum of life. "

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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6. Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
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8. Apple of My Eye

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

A celebration of her life-long love for New York, Hanff embarked on this project as an assignment, … read more

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9. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends … read more

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10. Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages,

This is the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and of all t… read more

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11. Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who make… read more

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  • fiction

12. Revolutionary Road

By: Richard Yates

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more

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13. 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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14. The Worst Witch (Worst Witch, #1)

By: Jill Murphy

3.96

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches - she's always getting her s… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult

15. The Swish of the Curtain

By: Pamela Brown

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

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16. The O'Sullivan Twins (St. Clare's, #2)

By: Enid Blyton

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

It's the start of the Easter Term and Pat and Isabel are looking forward to meeting all their frien… read more

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17. The Twins at St Clare's (St Clare's, #1)

By: Enid Blyton

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

When Pat and Isabel first go to St. Clare's they are determined not to enjoy themselves, but by the… read more

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18. Five Run Away Together (Famous Five, #3)

By: Enid Blyton

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

New and contemporary cover treatment brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century, and to a whole n… read more

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19. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more

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20. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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  • fiction
"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

21. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

By: Karen Joy Fowler

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, the story of an American f… read more

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22. 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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23. 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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24. The Whalebone Theatre

By: Joanna Quinn

4.06

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more

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  • fiction
"Without passion we are only machines."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

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25. 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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  • fiction
"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

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26. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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27. Lily

By: Rose Tremain

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more

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  • fiction
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28. Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life

By: Michael Mosley

4.03

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to u… read more

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29. Golden Pavements

By: Pamela Brown

4.17

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The second sequel to the classic children's theatre story The Swish of the Curtain. As the six o… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Good-Bye, Gemma (Gemma, #4) by Noel Streatfeild

30. Good-Bye, Gemma (Gemma, #4)

By: Noel Streatfeild

3.76

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

As her cousins find success singing and dancing on the stage, Gemma wins a coveted acting role in a… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult

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Enid Blyton

3.94

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T.H. White

4.67

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Sally Nicholls

4.19

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Robin Stevens

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Angie Kim

3.75

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