The River Within
By: Karen Powell
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It is the summer of 1955. Alexander, Tom and his sister Lennie, discover the body of their childhoo…
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1. Mrs. Miniver
By: Jan Struther , Greer Garson
3.92
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed m… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person."-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's."-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye …"-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late sum…"-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
2. The Birds and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.39
Format: 440 pages, ebook
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birdswas immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. … read more
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- gothic
- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
3. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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- historical fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
4. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- gothic
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
5. 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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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
6. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
By: Larry Loftis
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Florida Book Awards Gold Medalist New York Times bestselling author and … read more
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- historical
7. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
8. Here We Are
By: Graham Swift
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In his newest novel, acclaimed author Graham Swift marries the erratic devastations of reality with… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The F**k It! List
By: Melanie Cantor
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Daisy Settle has it all. A successful interior design firm, a happy relationship, a beautiful house… read more
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- fiction
10. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
11. Day One
By: Abigail Dean
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- thriller
- fiction
12. The Kellerby Code
By: Jonny Sweet
3.51
Format: None pages, ebook
Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- thriller
- fiction
13. Hot Stew
By: Fiona Mozley
3.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
London has changed a lot over the years. The Soho that Precious and Tabitha live and work in is bar… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
14. The Bass Rock
By: Evie Wyld
3.70
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its … read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Joseph recalls his mother who was “mad and screaming like birds were sewn under her skin"-Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock
15. The Burial Plot
By: Elizabeth Macneal
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more
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- gothic
- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
16. Before My Actual Heart Breaks
By: Tish Delaney
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
I’m not yours and you’re not mine. That’s what I say to his dreaming face as I watch the shadows of… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
18. Sun Damage
By: Sabine Durrant
3.64
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Reminiscent of the works of Patricia Highsmith and Lucy Foley, a compulsive psychological thriller—… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- thriller
- fiction
19. Drift
By: Caryl Lewis
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'A truly beautiful and haunting novel, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN, author o… read more
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- historical fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
20. The River Within
By: Karen Powell
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It is the summer of 1955. Alexander, Tom and his sister Lennie, discover the body of their childhoo… read more
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- gothic
- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
21. Our Evenings
By: Alan Hollinghurst
4.28
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
