Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st…
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1. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
By: Dominic Sandbrook
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandb… read more
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2. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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3. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- biography
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
4. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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5. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
8. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)
By: Richard Coles
3.87
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more
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9. Don't Look Back In Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia
By: Daniel Rachel
3.91
Format: 495 pages, Hardcover
The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of t… read more
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10. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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11. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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12. A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives
By: David Hepworth
4.09
Format: None pages, ebook
_________‘Hepworth’s knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious … [a] hugely enterta… read more
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13. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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14. The Instrumentalist
By: Harriet Constable
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more
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15. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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16. Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman
By: Harriet Baker
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and… read more
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17. A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season
By: Lara Maiklem
4.46
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
'An absolute treasure trove of sound advice and historical detail' Katherine May'A delightful and a… read more
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18. Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It
By: Sam Freedman
4.50
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
NOTHING WORKS IN BRITAIN.It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. W… read more
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"Having sharper, more thoughtful and emotionally intelligent people with integrity in high office will always make things better."-Sam Freedman, Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It
19. Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
By: Mishal Husain
4.30
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
'Unforgettable' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Spell-binding' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Fascinating' WILLIAM DALRYM… read more
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20. Small Bomb at Dimperley
By: Lissa Evans
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more
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21. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
22. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more
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23. The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370
By: Florence de Changy
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen in close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not poss… read more
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24. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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25. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power
By: Sasha Swire
3.47
Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more
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26. Gabriel's Moon
By: William Boyd
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more
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27. Wife
By: Charlotte Mendelson
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a beautifully observed and coruscating novel about the joys of passi… read more
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28. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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29. The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
By: Kate Summerscale
4.11
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermidFrom Brita… read more
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30. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)
By: Ian Rankin
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more
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