Me, Monica and Philip Larkin: The Life and Long Loves of Monica Jones
By: John Sutherland
4.04
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Monica Jones was Philip Larkin's partner for more than four decades, and was arguably the most impo…
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1. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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2. The Old Wives' Tale
By: Arnold Bennett
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in… read more
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3. Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
By: David Rieff
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
Both a memoir and an investigation, "Swimming in a Sea of Death" is David Rieff's loving tribute to… read more
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4. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
By: Andrew Wilson
4.36
Format: 184 pages,
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known chara… read more
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5. Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9)
By: Ruth Rendell
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela H… read more
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6. At Freddie's
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"Freddie's" is the familiar name of the Temple Stage School, which supplies London's West End theat… read more
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7. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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8. One Across, Two Down
By: Ruth Rendell
4.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stand… read more
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9. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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10. A Laodicean: A Story of Today
By: Thomas Hardy , J.H. Stape
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
Having accepted the suit of Captain, Paula discovers that his illegitimate son has hatched a plot a… read more
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11. 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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12. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
13. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
14. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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15. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
By: John Carreyrou
4.41
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
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17. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
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18. Here We Are
By: Graham Swift
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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19. Me, Monica and Philip Larkin: The Life and Long Loves of Monica Jones
By: John Sutherland
4.04
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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