As the Women Lay Dreaming
By: Donald S. Murray
3.91
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
A novel of the Iolaire disaster. In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist o…
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1. Entry Island
By: Peter May
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Only two kilometers wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of just more than 100… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Vítr začal vát od severozápadu a vypudil poslední pozůstatky léta. Ranní oblohu tížila nízká mračna připravená vyplakat na zemi svůj žal."-Peter May, Entry Island
2. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
3. Public Library and Other Stories
By: Ali Smith
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of th… read more
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- fiction
4. Ein ganzes Leben
By: Robert Seethaler
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Als Andreas Egger in das Tal kommt, in dem er sein Leben verbringen wird, ist er vier Jahre alt, un… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Findings
By: Kathleen Jamie
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poe… read more
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- scotland
6. The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy, #1)
By: Peter May
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
7. The Luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. 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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- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Lewis Man (The Lewis Trilogy, #2)
By: Peter May
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially be… read more
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10. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
11. The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy, #3)
By: Peter May
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating … read more
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12. Fifteen Dogs
By: André Alexis
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." " I'll wager a… read more
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13. South from Granada: A Sojourn in Southern Spain
By: Gerald Brenan , Chris Fortunato
3.62
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
An amusing and insightful account of Spanish village life from a brilliant interpreter of Spain to … read more
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14. The Grave Tattoo
By: Val McDermid
4.38
Format: 83 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Val McDermid comes a modern thriller about an ancient murder set on the hig… read more
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15. 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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"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
16. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)
By: Chris Hammer
3.96
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more
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- fiction
17. 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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- historical
18. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical 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
19. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
20. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
21. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
22. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
23. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
24. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
25. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
26. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more
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- fiction
27. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- scotland
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
28. The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)
By: Karen Swan
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Wild-spirited Effie Gillies has lived all her life on the small island of St Kilda but when Lord Sh… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
"forcing her mind away from the past, even though the shadows slunk over her at every turn."-Karen Swan, The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)
"How many times had she crept into them as a little girl, playing hide and seek with Mhairi and Flora and their many brothers? Why couldn't one of those boys have grown into a man who made the very ed…"-Karen Swan, The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)
29. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope
By: Clive Myrie
4.31
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more
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30. When I Had A Little Sister
By: Catherine Simpson
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
When I had a Little Sister is a memoir about a Lancashire farming family, whose love of their land … read more
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31. As the Women Lay Dreaming
By: Donald S. Murray
3.91
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
A novel of the Iolaire disaster. In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist o… read more
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- fiction
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