An Orkney Tapestry
By: George Mackay Brown
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. First Edition, First Printing. D/…
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. Lanark
By: Alasdair Gray , Janice Galloway
4.10
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of … read more
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- scotland
"Glasgow is a magnificent city,"-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
3. Aunty Lee's Delights (Singaporean Mystery #1)
By: Ovidia Yu
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and pr… read more
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4. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1)
By: Joan Aiken , Pat Marriott
4.12
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leav… read more
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5. Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Hercule Poirot, #38)
By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser , David Suchet
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Audio CD
The unabridged tales in this Mystery Mastersaudiobook include all the ones in the print book first … read more
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6. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
7. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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8. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
By: Marc Morris
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. Borstal Boy
By: Brendan Behan , Benedict Kiely
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Brendan Behan was an Irish playwright and novelist, as well as a youthful revolutionary. In 1939, a… read more
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- nonfiction
11. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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12. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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13. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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14. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more
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15. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
16. The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more
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"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
17. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
18. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- history
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
19. The Offing
By: Benjamin Myers
4.25
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more
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"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
20. Murder at the Spring Ball (Lord Edgington Investigates, #1)
By: Benedict Brown
4.12
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
A little music, a little dancing, a little murder at the spring ball. England, 1925. After years s… read more
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21. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
22. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- history
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
23. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
24. 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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- scotland
25. Reykjavík: A Crime Story
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.66
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more
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26. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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- nonfiction
"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
27. Companion Piece
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more
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- scotland
28. The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads
By: Alistair Moffat
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped … read more
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- nonfiction
- scotland
29. 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
30. The Instant
By: Amy Liptrot
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more
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- nonfiction
- scotland
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
31. An Orkney Tapestry
By: George Mackay Brown
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. First Edition, First Printing. D/… read more
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