The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age
By: Vic Gatrell
3.77
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of…
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1. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
2. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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- british literature
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
3. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless plane… read more
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4. Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Short Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Helen Oyeyemi , Silvina Ocampo , Daniel Balderston
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great master… read more
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5. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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6. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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7. Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
By: Patrick Hamilton
3.50
Format: None pages,
A timeless classic of sleazy London life in the 1930s, a world of streets, full of cruelty and kind… read more
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8. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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9. 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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10. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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11. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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12. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
13. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more
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"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"The soul is the weariest part of the body."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
14. Unlikely Stories, Mostly
By: Alasdair Gray
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is Alastair Gray's first collection of short stories. He is the author of "Lanark" and "Why Sc… read more
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15. The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more
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- british literature
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
16. Erewhon (Erewhon , #1)
By: Samuel Butler
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In this novel, Butler satirically describes a utopian society, using the civilization of 'Erewhon' … read more
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17. Vile Bodies
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more
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18. The Dance Tree
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more
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19. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- history
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
20. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
21. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
22. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
23. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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24. Companion Piece
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more
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- art
- british literature
25. The Cloisters
By: Katy Hays
3.41
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
On the wheel of fortune, who will emerge on top... and who will die? When Ann Stilwell arrives i… read more
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"Life after parents is like a clean slate. [Rachel Mondray]"-Katy Hays, The Cloisters
"...time made it possible to revisit even the hardest places. [Ann Stilwell]"-Katy Hays, The Cloisters
"And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before. [Ann Stilwell]"-Katy Hays, The Cloisters
"Era difícil no notar el peso del pasado a nuestro alrededor. Al fin de cuentas, ¿los museos no eran en realidad mausoleos?"-Katy Hays, The Cloisters
26. Mrs. Caliban
By: Rachel Ingalls
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “… read more
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"Drugs,"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"Why do you call him a monster?"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
27. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain
By: Ian Mortimer
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
'Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about crim… read more
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- history
- research
- british literature
28. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
By: Greg Jenner
4.11
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth (Ancient Lives)
By: Francine Prose
3.31
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian quee… read more
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- history
30. The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age
By: Vic Gatrell
3.77
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of… read more
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- history
- british literature
- research
- nonfiction
- 18th century
31. Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History
By: Holly Kyte
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual … read more
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- history
