When Blackbirds Sing (Langton Quartet, #4)
By: Martin Boyd
3.90
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, this last of the four Langton novels features Dominic Langton, for whom th…
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1. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
By: Aimee Bender
3.24
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really… read more
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"YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH."-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
"It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers."-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
"You took him out of school. But you didn't give him something better than school."-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
"My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want."-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
2. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
3. 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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- fiction
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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
4. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)
By: John Banville
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more
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5. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
6. Ancestry
By: Simon Mawer
4.02
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts thro… read more
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7. When Blackbirds Sing (Langton Quartet, #4)
By: Martin Boyd
3.90
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, this last of the four Langton novels features Dominic Langton, for whom th… read more
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