Nettles
By: Adam Scovell
3.89
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
It is the first day of term at a secondary school on Merseyside, 2001. The Towers are soon to fall.…
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1. If I Don't Know
By: Wendy Cope
3.85
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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2. Turning Blue
By: Benjamin Myers
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"Benjamin Myers is the master of English rural noir, and with Turning Blue, he has created a whole … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
3. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
4. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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5. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
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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"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. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
8. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- british literature
9. Pelea de gallos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.15
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –o destruye– a la… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
10. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- fiction
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
11. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- contemporary
- british literature
12. Waiting for Ted
By: Marieke Bigg
3.23
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
“After all these years, I was surprised to find that we were still in the process of trying to asse… read more
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- contemporary
13. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
14. Des diables et des saints
By: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
C'est une histoire d'orphelin et d'amour. Celle d'un vieil homme qui joue divinement du Beethoven s… read more
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- contemporary
"Je sortis, ivre de ces premières colères de l'adolescence, les poings remplis d'éclairs qu'on lance au petit bonheur."-Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Des diables et des saints
15. The Whispering Muse
By: Laura Purcell
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more
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16. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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17. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
18. The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond
By: Chris Blackwell
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Sound Man and The Soundtrack of My Life , a lyrical, warmhearted, and inspirational … read more
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19. The Water Cure
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three… read more
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- contemporary
"New dangers, though, coming to the surface like the bubbles of soap."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Sometimes she was my enemy and sometimes she was just my mother, an enemy in a different way."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Love as a protest within my body. Or perhaps it’s just that I am unused to touch, am out of practice. Bodies do not lie. This all acts as proof that he has touched me here, here, here."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"It used to bother me that we would leave little trace, but now I have never been more glad about anything. I will wake up in the empty mornings with the absence of you, and I will think, Glad, glad, …"-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
20. Nettles
By: Adam Scovell
3.89
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
It is the first day of term at a secondary school on Merseyside, 2001. The Towers are soon to fall.… read more
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- contemporary
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21. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women ha… read more
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"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
