London Rising: The Men Who Made Modern London
By: Leo Hollis
3.88
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Like a phoenix from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666, London was reborn to become the greatest m…
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1. The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)
By: Andrew Taylor
3.75
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historic… read more
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"One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark."-Andrew Taylor, The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)
2. Crampton Hodnet
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more
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3. The Riddle of the Third Mile (Inspector Morse, #6)
By: Colin Dexter
3.24
Format: None pages,
Inspector Morse isn't sure what to make of the truncated body found dumped in the Oxford Canal. He … read more
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4. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more
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5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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6. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
By: Jane Harper
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more
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7. What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
By: John Mullan
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters c… read more
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8. Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew… read more
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9. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
10. Two on a Tower
By: Thomas Hardy
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful y… read more
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11. Full Dark House (Bryant & May, #1)
By: Christopher Fowler
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starr… read more
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12. 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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13. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
By: Emily Tesh
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more
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"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
14. The Magician
By: Colm Tóibín
4.02
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more
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"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
15. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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16. The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
By: Elodie Harper
4.22
Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition
The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious... Amara has escaped her life as … read more
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17. 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
18. A Three Dog Problem (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #2)
By: S.J. Bennett
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Queen Elizabeth II is having a royal nightmare. A referendum divides the nation, a tumultuous elect… read more
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19. Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
By: Laura Thompson
3.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses , a fascinating look at the… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
20. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain
By: Ian Mortimer
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
'Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about crim… read more
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- history
- british literature
21. This Is Shakespeare
By: Emma Smith
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws,… read more
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"Shakespeare is complex, like living, not technically and crackably difficult, like crosswords or changing the time on the cooker"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture, the study and performance of Shakespeare, and our …"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"Even though – perhaps because – we are in no doubt about his ruthless self-interest, Richard establishes an immediate alliance from the outset. This intimacy with the audience will be carefully manag…"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"You may recall – perhaps you’ve experienced this in the theatre – the bewilderingly oblique way Shakespeare tends to begin his plays, via marginal characters whom we struggle to place as they recount…"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
22. Briefly, A Delicious Life
By: Nell Stevens
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sand.In 14… read more
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"I don't want to be alone, I said. I don't understand why I am here alone."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"I was tired. I had been conscious for three hundred and seventy-nine years."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"The world is full of cowards she thinks. And it turns out sometimes the opposite of cowardice is playfulness."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"(...) thought of all that could be done between two women in possession of bodies, what effects could be achieved with fingers and tongues."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
23. Murder in Tuscany (Armstrong and Oscar Cozy Mystery, #1)
By: T.A. Williams
4.19
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
A BRAND NEW COZY CRIME SERIES SET IN GORGEOUS TUSCANY…IT’S MURDER IN PARADISE! A remote retreat…… read more
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24. Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
By: Will Hunt
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stat… read more
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"My thoughts earthwormed down inside my body, chewing through my inner architecture. It was the feeling of being peeled open, turned inside out. I felt the rhythmic clenching of my heart, my lungs bal…"-Will Hunt, Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
25. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
By: Peter Ross
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more
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"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
26. The Circumference of the World
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notoriou… read more
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27. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
By: Paterson Joseph
3.70
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
It’s finally time for Charles Ignatius Sancho to tell his story, one that begins on a slave ship in… read more
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28. Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
By: David Cannadine
3.86
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind… read more
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29. London Rising: The Men Who Made Modern London
By: Leo Hollis
3.88
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Like a phoenix from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666, London was reborn to become the greatest m… read more
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