The Bucket
By: Allan Ahlberg
3.79
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg - the enthralling childhood story one of Britain's best-loved children'…
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1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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2. Cider With Rosie
By: Laurie Lee
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosieis a charming memoir of Laurie Lee… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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- poetry
4. After You'd Gone
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she… read more
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5. She and Her Cat
By: Makoto Shinkai , Tsubasa Yamaguchi
3.69
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
“It was the start of spring. It was raining. That was the day that she brought me home.” This is… read more
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"Let's go home together."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"The only one waiting at home for me is my cat!"-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"And then after that long, long phone call, she wept."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"She's always ready with a kind smile for me. But . . . sometimes, that can be intensely frustrating."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
6. The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
By: Francis Spufford
3.91
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford mak… read more
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7. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
By: Kate DiCamillo , Bagram Ibatoulline
4.38
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bag… read more
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"I have been loved said Edward to the stars."-Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
"Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart..."-Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
"He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)"-Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
"But answer me this: how can a story end happily if there is no love?"-Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
8. This Winter
By: Alice Oseman
3.64
Format: 216 pages, ebook
A short story, based on characters from Solitaire - praised as 'The Catcher in the Rye for the digi… read more
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9. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more
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10. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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11. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
12. Still Life
By: Sarah Winman
4.17
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more
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"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
13. The Echo Chamber
By: John Boyne
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more
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"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber
"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber
14. 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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15. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
By: Adam Kay
4.12
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
17. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
18. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
19. The Lido
By: Libby Page
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject—and the unlik… read more
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"She took the loneliness out of being alone."-Libby Page, The Lido
"In a large townhouse, a family is spread out across its rooms, each living in their own state but under one flag"-Libby Page, The Lido
"...around puberty when the girls' bodies felt to them like uncomfortable clothes they'd love to wriggle out of. She remembers the transformation: the giggling rabble became a subdued group by the wat…"-Libby Page, The Lido
"It was rare that she got dressed up and went out, but each time a dinner party or the Christmas dinner with the other library staff came round she would stand in front of the mirror asking George to …"-Libby Page, The Lido
20. 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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21. When the Sky Falls
By: Phil Earle
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a true story. It's 1940, and Joseph has been packed off to stay with Mrs F, a gruff wom… read more
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22. Reasons to Be Cheerful
By: Nina Stibbe
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle m… read more
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23. While You Were Reading
By: Ali Berg
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Words are messy. Love is messier. A hilarious, insightful new novel from the creators of Books on … read more
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24. The Couple at the Table (Spilling CID, #11)
By: Sophie Hannah
3.09
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Honeymooners at a posh resort receive an ominous warning with deadly consequences in the latest gri… read more
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25. Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
By: A.J. Pearce
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young w… read more
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"Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key."-A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
26. A Ladder to the Sky
By: John Boyne
4.21
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—b… read more
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"I had told the truth, or a version of it, anyway."-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
"I think Maurice is whatever he needs to be, whenever he needs to be it. He's an operator, that's for sure."-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
"Would there be no end to publishing, he wondered? Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years, and allowed readers to catch up."-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
"I've known a lot of whores in my life," added Gore, [...]. "Both men and women. And in general, I've always found them to be good company, with a highly evolved sense of honor. A whore will never che…"-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
27. Dragon Mountain (Dragon Realm, #1)
By: Katie Tsang
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Deep within the mountain, a great creature stirred in its sleep. Its eyes rolled back in its head, … read more
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28. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more
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- nonfiction
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
29. The Bucket
By: Allan Ahlberg
3.79
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg - the enthralling childhood story one of Britain's best-loved children'… read more
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- poetry
- history
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
30. The Figurine
By: Victoria Hislop
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more
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