Salt
By: Catrin Kean
3.99
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Cardiff in the late 1800s is grimy, crowded, and grey, and Ellen, a domestic, dreams of escaping he…
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1. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
2. Precious Bane
By: Mary Webb
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A compelling story of passion, with an enduring air of enchantment throughout, Precious Bane is a n… read more
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"What did I do, I, that knew his smile was my summer?"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Perché io credo che l'anima agisca sul corpo, che lo vivifichi col suo soffio e lo ricopra di un velo che lo fa sembrare più bello di quanto non sia."-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"There are misfortunes that make you spring up and rush to save yourself, but, there are others that are too bad for this, for they leave nought to do. Then a stillness falls on the soul, like the sti…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Not only had he looked at me, but he had looked with favour and longing, and though I knew it was only because the truth was hidden from him, yet I was glad of what I had, as a winter bird is, that w…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
3. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
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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. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more
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7. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
8. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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9. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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- fiction
10. A Cast of Falcons (Nell Ward, #2)
By: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
3.89
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
When the wedding of her oldest friend ends with a shocking murder, Dr Nell Ward is once again caugh… read more
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11. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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12. A Game of Lies (DC Morgan, #2)
By: Clare Mackintosh
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
They say the camera never lies. But on this show, you can't trust anything you see. Stranded in… read more
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13. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
14. The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.20
Format: 384 pages, ebook
In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a … read more
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15. Sea Prayer
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.10
Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee c… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"All of us inpatient for the sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
16. The Sardinian Story
By: Francesca Scanacapra
4.16
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Apennine Mountains, Italy, 1965 Leonora Bacchetti was once a happy child. But at the age of sevente… read more
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17. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.14
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award Praise for Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series “G… read more
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"Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought."-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
"Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not."-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
"His mind isn't reacting properly, plodding along the byways and cul-de-sacs because it can't face the traffic on the main highway. But when it comes to it, his life has once more become a straight ro…"-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
"It's a long shot but we can't leave any stone unturned. Cloughie, you get onto the number plate.' It's an odd phrase, thinks Nelson, as he runs the CCTV footage one more time. He thinks of the tunnel…"-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
18. The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.05
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—“a captivating amateur sleuth” (Louise Penny)—and… read more
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"Look which way the bones lie. The position tells you everything. In Christian burials, bodies are usually buried facing east, supposedly towards heaven. Sometimes priests and religious leaders are bu…"-Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)
19. The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.20
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four … read more
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20. The Stranding
By: Kate Sawyer
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an… read more
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- fiction
21. The Fortune Men
By: Nadifa Mohamed
3.80
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust… read more
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22. Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
By: Ali Smith
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred yea… read more
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"We move from one invisibility to another."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
23. West
By: Carys Davies
3.70
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge anci… read more
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24. Old Rage
By: Sheila Hancock
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sheila Hancock looked like she was managing old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhoo… read more
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25. Strange Flowers
By: Donal Ryan
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more
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26. The Saint of Lost Things
By: Tish Delaney
3.97
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
>I had dreams once, but never for anything as extravagant as happiness. Still, Auntie Bell and me h… read more
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27. The Walled Garden
By: Sarah Hardy
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A luminous debut novel about love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience, for reade… read more
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28. 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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29. Salt
By: Catrin Kean
3.99
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Cardiff in the late 1800s is grimy, crowded, and grey, and Ellen, a domestic, dreams of escaping he… read more
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30. The Figurine
By: Victoria Hislop
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more
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