The Dancing Bear
By: Frances Faviell
4.25
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
‘You don’t want to mind about any of this,’ said the driver, waving a hand at the grey ruins and th…
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1. The House on the Strand
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.83
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agre… read more
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- british literature
"The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me."-Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand
2. Vain Shadow
By: Jane Hervey , Celia Robertson
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
"This ‘unique, astute and very funny’ black comedy was written in the early 1950s, put away in a dr… read more
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- british literature
3. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
By: Mollie Panter-Downes
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
For fifty years Mollie Panter-Downes' name was associated with "The New Yorker", for which she wrot… read more
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- world war ii
- war
- british literature
4. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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- british literature
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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- 20th century
- british literature
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6. The Home-Maker
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Although this novel first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the p… read more
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7. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
By: Helene Hanff
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
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9. Queen Lucia (Lucia, #1)
By: E.F. Benson
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Queen Lucia is the first book in the Mapp and Lucia series. Mrs. Lucas, Lucia to her intimates, res… read more
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10. Miss Mapp (Lucia, #2)
By: E.F. Benson
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
E. F. Benson's strikingly original comic creation Miss Mapp is an arch-schemer and social climber f… read more
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11. Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
By: Kate Atkinson
3.80
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases:… read more
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- british literature
"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"What a fantastic form of avoidance being a bride of Christ was."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
12. Postscript to Poison
By: Dorothy Bowers
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cornelia Lackland ruled her house with an iron fist and a firm grasp on the pocketbook. Her late hu… read more
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13. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more
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14. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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15. Sally-Ann
By: Susan Scarlett
3.97
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The Marchioness's face changed. ... She turned to Ann. "What is your name, dear?" "Ann." "Wou… read more
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- british literature
16. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles
By: Martin Edwards
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more
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17. Clothes-Pegs
By: Susan Scarlett
3.86
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more
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18. The Woods in Winter
By: Stella Gibbons
3.94
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
Ivy Glover, thrice married and widowed, had been a char since the age of 12 and she was at it still… read more
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19. Near Neighbours
By: Molly Clavering
4.23
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
Miss Dorothea Balfour was nearer seventy than sixty, but there was something childlike about her . … read more
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- 20th century
- british literature
20. Father
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.06
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more
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- 20th century
- british literature
"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
21. Tea Is So Intoxicating
By: Mary Essex
3.51
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
“I shall turn this into a tea-house, with lunches if requested, and shall serve pleasant meals in t… read more
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22. Sally on the Rocks
By: Winifred Boggs
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton re… read more
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- british literature
23. Mamma
By: Diana Tutton
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
The doomed mutual attraction of a middle-aged widow and her new son-in-law, who is much closer to h… read more
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24. Enbury Heath
By: Stella Gibbons
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
In her autobiographical novel Enbury Heath she describes her family life with two younger brothers,… read more
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25. A Harp in Lowndes Square
By: Rachel Ferguson
3.49
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
In the schoolroom in Lowndes Square, a child, in her ugly, unsuitable frock of plum-coloured satin,… read more
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26. The Dancing Bear
By: Frances Faviell
4.25
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
‘You don’t want to mind about any of this,’ said the driver, waving a hand at the grey ruins and th… read more
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- memoir
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- world war ii
- biography memoir
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