Fenny
By: Lettice Cooper
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Ellen Fenwick travelled to Florence for the first time in April 1933… Following her mother’s death…
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2. Someone at a Distance
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectato… read more
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- classics
- modern classics
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"With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table."-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catc…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation th…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it,…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
3. The Birds and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.39
Format: 440 pages, ebook
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birdswas immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. … read more
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- classics
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4. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more
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- fiction
5. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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- classics
- fiction
6. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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- fiction
7. Angel
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more
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- classics
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8. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households pre… read more
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- fiction
9. Mapp and Lucia (Lucia, #4)
By: E.F. Benson
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to he… read more
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- classics
- fiction
10. The Rich House
By: Stella Gibbons
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set on the eve of World War II in a resort on the east coast of England, The Rich Housefollows the … read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more
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- fiction
12. 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
13. Miss Mole
By: E.H. Young
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out… read more
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- modern classics
- fiction
"Without actually making that confession, her mind went on to imagine what a real love might have been. But such loves do not come in the way of the Miss Moles of this world, and now she was nearly fo…"-E.H. Young, Miss Mole
14. Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford, #5)
By: Mrs. Oliphant , Margaret Oliphant
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carli… read more
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- fiction
15. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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- modern classics
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
16. The Pursuit of Love
By: Nancy Mitford
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more
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17. Frost in May
By: Antonia White
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wou… read more
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18. The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire #5)
By: Anthony Trollope , Julian Thompson
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
The Small House at Allingtonis the fifth book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester series. As with all … read more
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19. A Wreath of Roses
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.90
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private abso… read more
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- classics
- modern classics
- fiction
"For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts."-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
"—Durante años vivimos al galope —dijo Frances— y de pronto las dudas nos asaltan, el paisaje se ensombrece, nos sentimos perdidas y solas, y repentinamente tomamos conciencia de que tendremos que seg…"-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
"Intentos de registrar la vida misma, pensó, de inmortalizar alguna de las escenas efímeras de cada día, de pintar los objetos cotidianos con ternura e intimidad: el café sucio con sus espejos carcomi…"-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
20. Gone to Earth
By: Mary Webb
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The daughter of a Welsh gypsy and a crazy bee-keeper, Hazel Woodus is happiest living in her forest… read more
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21. Crewe Train
By: Rose Macaulay , None
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
On the death of her father, a retired clergyman, Denham Dobie is forced to leave her wild and caref… read more
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22. Black Narcissus
By: Rumer Godden
3.25
Format: 40 pages,
In the days when it was the General's 'harem' palace, ladies with their retinues and rich clothes c… read more
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23. The Greengage Summer
By: Rumer Godden
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more
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25. Diary of a Provincial Lady
By: E.M. Delafield
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
When Diary of a Provincial Ladywas first published in 1933, critics on both sides of the Atlantic g… read more
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26. A Pin To See The Peepshow
By: Elaine Morgan , F. Tennyson Jesse
3.91
Format: 385 pages,
A Pin to See the Peepshow is a fictionalized account of the life of Edith Thompson, one of the thre… read more
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27. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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- fiction
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
28. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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- fiction
"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
29. The Gentlewomen
By: Laura Talbot
4.02
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The hardships and rapid changes produced in England during World War II erode Miss Bolby's self-ima… read more
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- fiction
30. Fenny
By: Lettice Cooper
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Ellen Fenwick travelled to Florence for the first time in April 1933… Following her mother’s death… read more
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