Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks
By: Caitlin Davies
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and ro…
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1. A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
By: Libba Bray
3.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gem… read more
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2. Ostland
By: David Thomas
4.50
Format: None pages,
February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder … read more
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3. Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago
By: Harold Schechter
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious--but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells t… read more
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4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Blood & Sugar
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
3.93
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded… read more
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- crime
6. Death of a Bookseller
By: Alice Slater
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more
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7. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
8. The Mermaid of Black Conch
By: Monique Roffey
3.89
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't ex… read more
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"Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"Life change quick boy. Another planet so. Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come"-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
9. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
10. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
11. The Monk (DS Cross Mysteries, #5)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.51
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
To find a murderer, you need a motive . . . THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross has always wondered w… read more
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- crime
12. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
By: Edward Chisholm
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Token Black Girl
By: Danielle Prescod
3.92
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingl… read more
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- nonfiction
"It’s the media’s job to accurately reflect the world we live in, not distort it."-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl
"How much pain you can withstand should not be the barometer of how successful you can become."-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl
"Women are taught that our bodies must be fixed and that, if given the power to do so, we should use it."-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl
"I was convinced I had to work for and earn affection… I would have to put in the time and effort to be loved."-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl
14. The Housekeepers
By: Alex Hay
3.34
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
On the night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women launches a daring revenge heist again… read more
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- crime
15. The Lido
By: Libby Page
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject—and the unlik… read more
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"She took the loneliness out of being alone."-Libby Page, The Lido
"In a large townhouse, a family is spread out across its rooms, each living in their own state but under one flag"-Libby Page, The Lido
"...around puberty when the girls' bodies felt to them like uncomfortable clothes they'd love to wriggle out of. She remembers the transformation: the giggling rabble became a subdued group by the wat…"-Libby Page, The Lido
"It was rare that she got dressed up and went out, but each time a dinner party or the Christmas dinner with the other library staff came round she would stand in front of the mirror asking George to …"-Libby Page, The Lido
16. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)
By: Josiah Bancroft
3.82
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more
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"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)
"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)
"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)
17. The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)
By: Kate Mosse
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse return… read more
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18. Ordinary People
By: Diana Evans
3.31
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘You can take a leap, do something off the wall, something reckless. It’s your last chance, and mos… read more
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"C'est incroyable ce que la musique peut charpenter une vie, toute une vie, et te la rendre par pans entiers, alors que tu pensais avoir tout oublié."-Diana Evans, Ordinary People
19. The City of Stardust
By: Georgia Summers
3.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods an… read more
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20. Salt and Skin
By: Eliza Henry-Jones
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
‘Until recently, there had been four of them. Unspeaking, the three remaining Managans lugged their… read more
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21. The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls
By: Luca Crippa
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Nazis asked him to swear allegiance to Hitler, betraying his country, his friends, and everythi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
23. The Things We Do to Our Friends
By: Heather Darwent
3.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the… read more
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24. The Vintage Shop of Second Chances
By: Libby Page
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something… read more
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25. The Secrets of Blythswood Square
By: Sara Sheridan
4.19
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasg… read more
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26. Lowbridge
By: Lucy Campbell
3.83
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
Where everybody knows everyone, how can somebody just disappear? A missing girl. Decades of silenc… read more
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- crime
27. The Japan Lights: On the Trail of the Scot Who Lit Up Japan’s Coast
By: Iain Maloney
4.16
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
In 2017, holed up in a hotel room, feverish, despondent and aimless, Iain Maloney chances upon an a… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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29. Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks
By: Caitlin Davies
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and ro… read more
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- history
- true crime
- research
- nonfiction
- crime
30. Breaststrokes
By: Margaux Vialleron
3.53
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
A novel on consent told in five acts over the course of one weekend. Cloe and Gertrude and the Jenk… read more
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31. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)
By: Ian Rankin
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more
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