6 Best novels books like Little Prisons by Ilona Bannister

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Little Prisons

By: Ilona Bannister

4.38

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

When you can't get out, let kindness in. In a non-descript building in a gentrifying corner of L…

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1. Jaded

By: Ela Lee

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more

Similar categories in Ela Lee's Jaded book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"

-Ela Lee, Jaded

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2. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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3. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Water book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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5. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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6. The Other Year

By: Rea Frey

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single moment? On a coveted two-week beach vaca… read more

Similar categories in Rea Frey's The Other Year book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • feminism
  • mental health
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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8. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

Similar categories in Dawn O'Porter's Cat Lady book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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9. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Coyne's Frank and Red book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Summer People

By: Julie Cohen

3.48

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A love that can't be stopped. A secret that will change everything... Marriages end with a whis… read more

Similar categories in Julie Cohen's Summer People book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • fiction
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12. Ghosted

By: Jenn Ashworth

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband Mark vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For week… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Ashworth's Ghosted book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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13. A Quiet Life

By: Ethan Joella

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, charact… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's A Quiet Life book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a pain…"

-Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

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14. Girls and Their Horses

By: Eliza Jane Brazier

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cut… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Jane Brazier's Girls and Their Horses book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

By: Michael Rosen

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more

Similar categories in Michael Rosen's Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • mental health
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16. Oh, Sister

By: Jodie Chapman

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Meet Isobel, Jen and Zelda.Three women whose bodies and minds are not their own.They belong to the … read more

Similar categories in Jodie Chapman's Oh, Sister book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Common Decency

By: Susannah Dickey

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and lo… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Common Decency book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
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18. Weak Teeth

By: Lynsey May

3.28

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Ellis's life has crumbled without warning. Her boyfriend has fallen in love with someone else, her … read more

Similar categories in Lynsey May's Weak Teeth book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Limelight

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Limelight book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth by Rebecca Humphries

20. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth

By: Rebecca Humphries

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Humphries's Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • feminism
  • adult
  • mental health
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21. Life Without Children: Stories

By: Roddy Doyle

3.47

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories… read more

Similar categories in Roddy Doyle's Life Without Children: Stories book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Losing the Plot

By: Derek Owusu

3.37

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 20… read more

Similar categories in Derek Owusu's Losing the Plot book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope by Clive Myrie

23. 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

Similar categories in Clive Myrie's Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

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24. Young Women

By: Jessica Moor

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and da… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Moor's Young Women book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
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25. Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online

By: Harriet Gibsone

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ a… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Gibsone's Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • mental health
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26. Women Are The Fiercest Creatures

By: Andrea Dunlop

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this wildly addictive novel, three overlooked women take on the charming, manipulative tech CEO … read more

Similar categories in Andrea Dunlop's Women Are The Fiercest Creatures book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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27. Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we surviv… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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29. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

By: Dan Slepian

4.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of two decades navigating a broken criminal justice sy… read more

Similar categories in Dan Slepian's The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

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30. Little Prisons

By: Ilona Bannister

4.38

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

When you can't get out, let kindness in. In a non-descript building in a gentrifying corner of L… read more

Similar categories in Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
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31. Fire

By: John Boyne

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the … read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Fire book and Ilona Bannister's Little Prisons

  • fiction

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