The Book of Pebbles
By: Christopher Stocks
4.20
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
Why do we pick up pebbles on the beach? What is it we see in them, and why do we take them home to …
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1. The Music Shop
By: Rachel Joyce
3.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel ab… read more
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"Aretha is soul. You can’t argue with Aretha."-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
"...the vivid past would not go away. Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you."-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
"Real love was a journey with many pitfalls and complications, and sometimes the place you ended up was not the one you hoped for."-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
"Frank was so busy loving other people he had no room to accommodate the fact that someone might turn around one day and love him back."-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
2. The Private Lives of Trees
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more
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3. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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4. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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5. The Offing
By: Benjamin Myers
4.25
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more
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- nature
- british literature
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
6. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- art
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
7. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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8. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- british literature
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
9. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
10. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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11. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
12. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
13. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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- nature
- british literature
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
14. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)
By: Marian Keyes
4.02
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more
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15. Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)
By: Juno Dawson
3.84
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches;… read more
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16. Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
By: Lucy Jones
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet na… read more
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17. The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2)
By: Juno Dawson
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of c… read more
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18. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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19. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)
By: Mark Billingham
4.41
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more
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20. Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another
By: Nancy Campbell
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils … read more
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21. The Book of Pebbles
By: Christopher Stocks
4.20
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
Why do we pick up pebbles on the beach? What is it we see in them, and why do we take them home to … read more
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