17 must-read fiction books like Gemma and Sisters (Gemma, #2) by Noel Streatfeild

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Gemma and Sisters (Gemma, #2)

By: Noel Streatfeild

3.68

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Gemma, once a child film-star, is living with her cousins in a small provincial town. Having though…

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1. Summer Term at St Clare's

By: Enid Blyton

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A classic childrens story from the worlds best-loved childrens author, Enid Blyton. School life has… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives f…"

-Enid Blyton, Summer Term at St Clare's

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2. Things a Bright Girl Can Do

By: Sally Nicholls

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stri… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
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3. Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1) by Robin Stevens

4. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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5. Apple of My Eye

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

A celebration of her life-long love for New York, Hanff embarked on this project as an assignment, … read more

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6. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends … read more

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7. Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages,

This is the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and of all t… read more

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8. Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who make… read more

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  • fiction

9. Revolutionary Road

By: Richard Yates

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more

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10. Death Comes to Pemberley

By: None

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwill… read more

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11. The O'Sullivan Twins (St. Clare's, #2)

By: Enid Blyton

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

It's the start of the Easter Term and Pat and Isabel are looking forward to meeting all their frien… read more

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12. The Twins at St Clare's (St Clare's, #1)

By: Enid Blyton

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

When Pat and Isabel first go to St. Clare's they are determined not to enjoy themselves, but by the… read more

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13. The Treasure Hunters

By: Enid Blyton

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The Greylings' Treasure has been lost for many, many years. But Jeffrey, Susan and John Greyling fi… read more

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14. Kensuke's Kingdom

By: Michael Morpurgo , Michael Foreman

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent's yacht, the Pe… read more

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15. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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16. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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  • fiction
"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

17. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

By: Karen Joy Fowler

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, the story of an American f… read more

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18. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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19. The Little Wartime Library

By: Kate Thompson

4.25

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

An uplifting and inspiring novel based on the true story of a librarian who created an underground … read more

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  • fiction
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20. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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  • fiction
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

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21. The Whalebone Theatre

By: Joanna Quinn

4.06

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more

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  • fiction
"Without passion we are only machines."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

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22. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • fiction
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23. The Other Bennet Sister

By: Janice Hadlow

4.16

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shad… read more

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  • fiction
"Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"If I don’t have the genius to create a thing of beauty myself, at least I have the judgement to appreciate the art of others."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

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24. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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  • fiction
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25. 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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  • fiction
"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

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26. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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27. Lily

By: Rose Tremain

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more

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  • fiction
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28. Mothers and Daughters

By: Erica James

4.31

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Even happy families have their secrets… Since the sudden death of her husband, Naomi has steadil… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Baby Love

By: Jacqueline Wilson

4.21

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy and its consequ… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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30. The Gift

By: Alan Titchmarsh

4.44

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

An ordinary life. An extraordinary choice. Adam Gabriel has always been a child of nature. Raise… read more

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31. Gemma and Sisters (Gemma, #2)

By: Noel Streatfeild

3.68

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Gemma, once a child film-star, is living with her cousins in a small provincial town. Having though… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile

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4.19

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4.21

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Paul Lynch

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Camilla Grudova

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