The Sound of Trumpets
By: John Mortimer
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the final installment of the postWorld War II trilogy that began with the bestselling Paradise P…
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1. The Road Home
By: Rose Tremain
3.88
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise a… read more
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- british literature
"Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of…"-Rose Tremain, The Road Home
2. Scoop
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- british literature
"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
3. The Black Prince
By: Iris Murdoch , Martha C. Nussbaum
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"Coming events do cast shadows."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"I've thought about nothing else but you."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"I know people can be awful dooms for each other."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
4. A Handful of Dust
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life wher… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- british literature
5. The Future Homemakers of America
By: Laurie Graham
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,this moving novel, filled with warmth, w… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- british literature
6. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
By: T.S. Eliot , Edward Gorey
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since t… read more
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- humor
- fiction
7. Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A Jeeves and Wooster novel Thank You, Jeevesis the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Je… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- british literature
8. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more
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- fiction
9. The Impossible Dead
By: Ian Rankin
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more
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- fiction
10. The Sword of Honour Trilogy
By: Evelyn Waugh , Frank Kermode
3.43
Format: 64 pages,
This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer,… read more
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11. No Holds Barred: An Idiot's Guide to the Art of Advocacy
By: None
3.66
Format: 352 pages,
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12. Big Money
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire - but … read more
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13. Triple
By: Ken Follett
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
As the nuclear arms race escalates in the Middle East, the Mossad, KGB, Egyptians, and Fedayeen ter… read more
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14. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1)
By: Douglas Adams
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Mass Market Paperback
What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum m… read more
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15. 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
- british literature
16. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- british literature
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
17. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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- fiction
18. 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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- british literature
"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
19. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
20. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- fiction
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
21. 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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- british literature
22. 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
23. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- british literature
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
24. Leonard and Hungry Paul
By: Ronan Hession
4.15
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In this startling debut, Ronan Hession tells the story of two thirty-something men who take care of… read more
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"You may wish to note the above"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"It was strange that after all the years of getting the kids to be independent, she would feel so daunted at having her life back. But it was the nature of being a parent. The kids' lives are their ow…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he rea…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
25. Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer (Agatha Raisin, #29)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.42
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
The latest Agatha Raisin mystery from bestselling author M. C. Beaton The team of bells at St. E… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
26. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
By: Louise Perry
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more
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"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
27. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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28. Ghost Mountain
By: Ronan Hession
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ghost Mountain is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly and the way in w… read more
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29. Rare Singles
By: Benjamin Myers
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more
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- british literature
30. The Sound of Trumpets
By: John Mortimer
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the final installment of the postWorld War II trilogy that began with the bestselling Paradise P… 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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