The Handyman
By: Penelope Mortimer
3.56
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
This impeccably crafted novel from the author of The Pumpkin Eater belongs to that familiar English…
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1. Something in Disguise
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her c… read more
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2. Quartet
By: Jean Rhys
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her li… read more
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3. The Thirteenth Tale
By: Diane Setterfield
3.98
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's col… read more
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"Life is compost."-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
"Reading can be dangerous."-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
"Of course I loved books more than people."-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
"What better place to kill time than a library?"-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
4. The Graduate (The Graduate, #1)
By: Charles Webb
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house,… read more
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5. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.20
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more
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"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
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7. A Kestrel for a Knave
By: Barry Hines
3.60
Format: 253 pages,
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more
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8. Two Is Lonely (Jane Graham, #3)
By: Lynne Reid Banks
3.54
Format: None pages,
Jane's son David is eight years old and Jane is filled with doubts as he grows up without a father.… read more
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9. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
10. The Painted Veil
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more
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11. A Stitch In Time
By: Penelope Lively
3.50
Format: 296 pages,
Always, since she was quite small, Maria had been extremely confused between what she had imagined … read more
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12. Voyage in the Dark
By: Jean Rhys , Carole Angier
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen… read more
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"Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly wh…"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
13. The Aspern Papers
By: Henry James
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some let… read more
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14. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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15. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more
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"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)
"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)
16. A Long Way from Verona
By: Jane Gardam
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at… read more
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17. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
18. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
19. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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20. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
By: Jean Rhys
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“Lucid, exact, and swift.… An essential part of the [Rhys] record.” ―V. S. Naipaul, New York Review… read more
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"But what if it were heaven when she got there?"-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"She found pleasure in memories, as an old woman might have done."-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"Darling.' She said 'darling' with her lips, but her heart was dead."-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?"-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
21. The Handyman
By: Penelope Mortimer
3.56
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
This impeccably crafted novel from the author of The Pumpkin Eater belongs to that familiar English… read more
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