Toy Fights: A Boyhood
By: Don Paterson
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing …
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1. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.65
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more
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"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
2. This House of Grief
By: Helen Garner
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
4. McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
By: Pete McCarthy
3.76
Format: None pages,
The #1 Irish Bestseller Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that now… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. The Comfort of Strangers
By: Ian McEwan
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
"Haunting and compelling." --The Times As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into th… read more
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6. 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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7. 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
8. An Ice-Cream War
By: William Boyd
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
1914. In a hotel room in German East Africa, American farmer Walter Smith dreams of Theodore Roosev… read more
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9. Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs
By: Jamie Fiore Higgins
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rare, riveting insider’s account on Wall Street—an updated Liar’s Poker—where greed coupled with … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
10. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
11. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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12. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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13. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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14. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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15. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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16. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
17. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
18. O Brother
By: John Niven
4.64
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"-John Niven, O Brother
19. 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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"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
20. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
21. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
22. The Children's Bach
By: Helen Garner
3.53
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more
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23. Follow The Money: How much does Britain cost?
By: Paul Johnson
4.29
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What is the truth about Britain's finances? Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute … read more
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- audiobook
24. Luckenbooth
By: Jenni Fagan
3.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a … read more
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"Life is so much more than we can manage it to be, it is so much more sudden than we are able to understand."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"My ma said: only love a man who reads books and understands them properly. If they don't read books don't go their bed. Ever!"-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"Such is the way. It’s like a disease. Love: 80 per cent proof. Risk of death if you drink it. Can send you mad, bad, blind and delirious."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"There is cheering out on the street. There is dancing. People meet and fall in love. Scuffles break out. They drink far too much. All of life is happening."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
25. This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal
By: Octavia Bright
4.32
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though,… read more
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26. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place
By: Martin Doyle
4.31
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
27. Homesick
By: Jennifer Croft
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language… read more
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28. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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29. Two Sisters
By: Blake Morrison
3.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
‘A book at once bold, magnanimous, heart-breaking and riveting’ HOWARD JACOBSON‘Beautiful. Affectin… read more
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- memoir
30. Toy Fights: A Boyhood
By: Don Paterson
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing … read more
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31. Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
By: Horatio Clare
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
'An extraordinary deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane Heavy Light … read more
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- biography
- memoir
