Taking the Plunge: The Healing Power of Wild Swimming for Mind, Body and Soul
By: Anna Deacon
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The thrill of plunging—or dipping a toe—into open water brings joy, confidence, adventure, and frie…
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1. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
By: Kathryn Mannix
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more
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2. Something Like Happy
By: Eva Woods
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
With wry wit and boundless heart, Eva Woods delivers an unforgettable tale of celebrating triumphs … read more
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3. 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
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
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"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
5. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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6. The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more
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"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
7. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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8. The Whalebone Theatre
By: Joanna Quinn
4.06
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more
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"Without passion we are only machines."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
9. The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #2)
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.98
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
"You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late…" These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded word… read more
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10. No. 23 Burlington Square
By: Jenni Keer
4.21
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
London, 1927: One house. Three lives. A decision that will change everything. A powerful, unique ti… read more
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11. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
13. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
By: Richard Osman
4.49
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more
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"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
14. 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)
15. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
16. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.93
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more
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17. 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
18. The Keeper of Stories
By: Sally Page
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more
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"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
19. The Castaways
By: Lucy Clarke
3.97
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN… It should be like an… read more
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"For so long I believed that I should only feel pleasure when I no longer feel all the other things: the sadness, the loss, the fear. But emotions don't come parcelled neatly. They're shaken together …"-Lucy Clarke, The Castaways
20. The Clockmaker's Daughter
By: Kate Morton
3.75
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of… read more
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"Being a parent’s a breeze,"-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"Her curiosity was unquenchable."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"Those who seek to know gossip will hear ill about themselves."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"No matter what evil might come one's way to be loved is to be protected."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
21. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.39
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Love can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one o… read more
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"It flicked through all the channels until it found a repeat of the 1990s show in which people in swimwear saved other people from drowning by running in slow motion towards them"-C.K. McDonnell, Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)
22. Sankofa
By: Chibundu Onuzo
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781646220830. Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudic… read more
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"Rotten eggs that will never hatch"-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
"Even now after all he’s done, I’m still waiting for his attention."-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
"Not even crocodiles eat their young...papa takes care of his children."-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
23. The Guest House by the Sea
By: Faith Hogan
4.21
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. But if they're lucky, t… read more
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24. Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more
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25. The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1)
By: S.J. Bennett
3.52
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked… read more
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26. Behind the Seams
By: Esme Young
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
*** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** From adventures at Central Saint Martins to The Great B… read more
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27. The Wildwater Women
By: Ellie Wood
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Sometimes the best things in life happen when you dare to get out of your depth. Abby lives and … read more
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28. Clean & Green: 101 Hints and Tips for a More Eco-Friendly Home
By: Nancy Birtwhistle
4.56
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
Simple swaps and innovative ideas for cleaning and maintaining your home that won't cost the Earth.… read more
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29. Winter Swimming: The Nordic Way Towards a Healthier and Happier Life
By: Susanna Søberg
3.91
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully illustrated exploration of cold-water traditions in Scandinavia and around the world,… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Taking the Plunge: The Healing Power of Wild Swimming for Mind, Body and Soul
By: Anna Deacon
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The thrill of plunging—or dipping a toe—into open water brings joy, confidence, adventure, and frie… read more
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31. The Book of Beginnings
By: Sally Page
4.23
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more
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