19 best-selling fiction books like The Cameraman by Matthew Kneale

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The Cameraman

By: Matthew Kneale

3.47

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Former cinema camera director Julius Sewell journeys across Europe with his family to his sister's …

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1. The Photograph

By: Penelope Lively

3.38

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest novel opens with a snapshot: Kath, before he… read more

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  • fiction
"My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined."

-Penelope Lively, The Photograph

"A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is…"

-Penelope Lively, The Photograph

2. Family Album

By: Penelope Lively

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • fiction
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4. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

By: Richard Coles

3.90

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Sparrow

By: James Hynes

4.00

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of an enslaved boy being raised in a Roman brothel, a stunning literary h… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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7. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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10. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.14

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."

-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

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12. 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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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

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13. At the Table

By: Claire Powell

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Museum of Broken Promises

By: Elizabeth Buchan

3.61

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The stunning new novel from bestselling Elizabeth Buchan. The Museum of Broken Promises is a beauti… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Waiter (Kamil Rahman, #1) by Ajay Chowdhury

15. The Waiter (Kamil Rahman, #1)

By: Ajay Chowdhury

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Hotel Milano

By: Tim Parks

3.50

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the firs… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Needless Alley

By: Natalie Marlow

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Birmingham, 1933. Private enquiry agent William Garrett, a man damaged by a dark childhood spen… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Cameraman by Matthew Kneale

19. The Cameraman

By: Matthew Kneale

3.47

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Former cinema camera director Julius Sewell journeys across Europe with his family to his sister's … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Figurine by Victoria Hislop

21. 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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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12 best-selling historical fiction books like The Cameraman by Matthew Kneale

Transform Your Habits

A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

Richard Coles

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Sparrow

James Hynes

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

John Banville

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Munich Wolf

Rory Clements

4.24

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21 best-selling fiction books like A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2) by Richard Coles

Transform Your Habits

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

Mark Billingham

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

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