7 best-selling historical books like The House Opposite by Barbara Noble

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The House Opposite

By: Barbara Noble

4.26

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

It was curious that the aerial bombardment of London, which had ennobled so much that was normally …

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Cover of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

1. 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

Similar categories in Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Caroline Dering, a young widow, lives in Vittoria Cottage in Ashbridge, a small country town in rur… read more

Similar categories in D.E. Stevenson's Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1) book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

3. Welcome to Lagos

By: Chibundu Onuzo

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Deep in the Niger Delta, officer Chike Ameobi deserts the army and sets out on the road to Lagos. H… read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Barbara Pym's Quartet in Autumn book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

5. Music In The Hills (Dering Family, #2)

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.45

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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6. Amberwell (Ayrton Family Book 1)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.53

Format: 288 pages,

Five young Ayrtons all grew up at Amberwell, playing in the gardens and preparing themselves to ven… read more

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7. The English Air

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.12

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

A son makes a devastating choice. Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an English mother… read more

Similar categories in D.E. Stevenson's The English Air book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's Pet book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Kate Hardy

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.02

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

"Do you know anything about her, Richard?" "Nothing except that she lives in London, is obviousl… read more

Similar categories in D.E. Stevenson's Kate Hardy book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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10. Babbacombe's

By: Susan Scarlett

4.00

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

"I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had to… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Babbacombe's book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
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11. Under the Rainbow

By: Susan Scarlett

4.11

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

To those who saw Saltings first on a hot day in summer-when heat shimmered in the hollows-that chur… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Under the Rainbow book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff

12. The Hopkins Manuscript

By: R.C. Sherriff

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered sp… read more

Similar categories in R.C. Sherriff's The Hopkins Manuscript book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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13. 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

Similar categories in Molly Clavering's Near Neighbours book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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14. 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

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Shy Creatures book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. This Motherless Land

By: Nikki May

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) retelling of Mansfield Park,… read more

Similar categories in Nikki May's This Motherless Land book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • adult
  • fiction
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16. Ordinary Time

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink

4.18

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

'There are already three of us in this marriage. I'm not sure there is room for a fourth . . .'Ann … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Rentzenbrink's Ordinary Time book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • fiction
Cover of The House Opposite by Barbara Noble

17. The House Opposite

By: Barbara Noble

4.26

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

It was curious that the aerial bombardment of London, which had ennobled so much that was normally … read more

Similar categories in Barbara Noble's The House Opposite book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • modern classics
Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

18. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Borrowed Hills

By: Scott Preston

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more

Similar categories in Scott Preston's The Borrowed Hills book and Barbara Noble's The House Opposite

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

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20. A Spring of Love

By: Celia Dale

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Esther Williams is thirty and single. She lives with her grandmother in a small house and her life … read more

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Winifred Watson

4.29

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4.33

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4.00

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Elizabeth Fair

4.02

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