Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
By: Margaret Forster
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In 1954 in Carlisle lived an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl called Margaret. This is her diary fro…
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1. Troubling Love
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.26
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Bril… read more
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2. Sour Candy
By: Kealan Patrick Burke
3.65
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more
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"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy
3. Jill Enjoys Her Ponies (Jill's Ponies, #4)
By: Ruby Ferguson
4.20
Format: 24 pages,
"Skulle du vilja gora nagot spannande nu pa lovet, Jill?" fragade fru Lowe. Jag svarade inte riktig… 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
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5. The Various Haunts of Men (Simon Serrailler, #1)
By: Susan Hill
3.93
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Having transferred to the small cathedral town of Lafferton from London's "Met," police detective F… read more
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6. In the Springtime of the Year
By: Susan Hill
4.43
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Set in a rural English village, In the Springtime of the Year is an astonishingly acute novel built… read more
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7. The Guest Cat
By: Takashi Hiraide , Eric Selland
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the ac… read more
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8. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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9. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
By: Catherine McCormack
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more
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"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
10. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
11. 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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12. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
By: Paula Byrne
4.05
Format: 686 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, intimate biography of English writer Barbara Pym. She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym … read more
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13. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
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. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more
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16. The Fell
By: Sarah Moss
3.63
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more
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"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."-Sarah Moss, The Fell
17. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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18. The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
By: Alexis Henderson
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this s… read more
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"Her sin had saved her."-Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
"To be woman is to be a sacrifice."-Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
"Sometimes I think we share a soul. His pain has become mine. And mine his."-Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
"The way she saw it, sin wasn't a plague you could catch if you ventured too close."-Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
19. A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler, #11)
By: Susan Hill
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this newest installment of Susan Hill’s electrifying crime series, Simon Serrailler finds himsel… read more
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20. Early Days
By: Miss Read
4.25
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Dora Shafe was to become the author Miss Read. This work brings together her two volumes of autobio… read more
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21. Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
By: Margaret Forster
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In 1954 in Carlisle lived an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl called Margaret. This is her diary fro… read more
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