The Valley at the Centre of the World
By: Malachy Tallack
3.79
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
Set against the rugged west coast of Shetland, in a community faced with extinction, The Valley at …
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1. Affinity
By: Sarah Waters
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women… read more
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- fiction
"Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?"-Sarah Waters, Affinity
"The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!"-Sarah Waters, Affinity
"They might be kind, I thought. They might be sensible and good. They will not be like you. But I did not say it. I knew it would mean nothing to her. I said something - something ordinary and mild, I…"-Sarah Waters, Affinity
"Every poor lady that came to me, that touched my hand, that drew a small part of my spirit from me to her—they were only shadows. Aurora, they were shadows of you! I was only seeking you out, as you …"-Sarah Waters, Affinity
2. Tod und Teufel
By: Frank Schätzing
4.50
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Koln im Jahr 1260. Durch die Gebeine der Heiligen Drei Konige, die der Erzbischof Rainald von Dasse… read more
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3. Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters, #2)
By: Juliet Marillier
4.34
Format: 132 pages,
After years of comparative peace, darkness has fallen upon Ulster. Trouble is brewing and even thos… read more
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4. The Green Ray
By: Jules Verne
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
When the Morning Post writes about the legendary Green Ray's elevating effects on the mind and soul… 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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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- nature
"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. Der Markisenmann
By: Jan Weiler
4.35
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
Nachdem die fünfzehnjährige Kim einen katastrophalen Unfall verschuldet hat, wird sie zu ihrem Vate… read more
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7. 22 Bahnen
By: Caroline Wahl
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre klein… read more
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8. Das Café ohne Namen
By: Robert Seethaler
3.68
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Ein Café und seine Menschen. Ein Mann, der seiner Sehnsucht folgt. Robert Seethalers neuer Roman. … read more
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- contemporary
9. Scabby Queen
By: Kirstin Innes
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more
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- literary fiction
- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen
10. The Gardener
By: Salley Vickers
3.57
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmother… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
11. Free Love
By: Tessa Hadley
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
12. The Coast Road
By: Alan Murrin
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more
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13. Paradise Garden
By: Elena Fischer
4.25
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Die 14-jährige Billie verbringt die meiste Zeit in ihrer Hochhaussiedlung. Am Monatsende reicht das… read more
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14. Zauber der Stille
By: Florian Illies
4.11
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
Mit Florian Illies kann man Vergangenheit plötzlich als Gegenwart erleben. In »Zauber der Stille« b… read more
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15. Nachts erzähle ich dir alles
By: Anika Landsteiner
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
»Ich habe Frankreich beim Lesen gerochen und gefühlt. Anika Landsteiner lässt einen tief eintauchen… read more
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- contemporary
16. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- nature
17. Bone China
By: Laura Purcell
3.65
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
18. Besser allein als in schlechter Gesellschaft: Meine eigensinnige Tante
By: Adriana Altaras
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Als ihre Eltern aus Zagreb fliehen müssen, kommt Adriana mit vier Jahren zu ihrer Tante nach Italie… read more
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19. The Tally Stick
By: Carl Nixon
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Up on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tire… read more
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20. Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe
By: Dean Nicholson
4.38
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Discover the nationally bestselling, true story of a life-changing friendship between a man and his… read more
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- contemporary
21. Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
By: Ali Smith
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mothe… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"But that's summer for you. Summer's like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn't just a merry tale. Because there's no merry tale without dar…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"And summer's surely really all about an imagined end. We head for it instinctually like it must mean something. We're always looking for it, looking it, heading towards it all year, the way a horizon…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
22. Kleine Probleme
By: Nele Pollatschek
3.57
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Nele Pollatschek erzählt eine alltägliche Geschichte, die mitten ins Herz unserer Existenz trifft. … read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
23. The Bass Rock
By: Evie Wyld
3.70
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its … read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
"Joseph recalls his mother who was “mad and screaming like birds were sewn under her skin"-Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock
24. The Witching Tide
By: Margaret Meyer
3.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historica… read more
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25. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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- contemporary
26. An Almost Impossible Thing
By: Fiona Davison
4.04
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
While working as Head of Libraries and Exhibitions at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Daviso… read more
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- nature
27. Möchte die Witwe angesprochen werden, platziert sie auf dem Grab die Gießkanne mit dem Ausguss nach vorne
By: Saša Stanišić
4.29
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Was wäre, wenn man nicht diese eine Entscheidung getroffen hätte, sondern jene andere? Was wäre, hä… read more
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"Gräßlicher als der Patriotismus mit all seinen Geschwüren sind nicht einmal Zahnschmerzen."-Saša Stanišić, Möchte die Witwe angesprochen werden, platziert sie auf dem Grab die Gießkanne mit dem Ausguss nach vorne
"Wir vier zum Beispiel. Ausländer in Deutschland. Ja, auch du, Nico, deine Mutter ist DDR, das zählt."-Saša Stanišić, Möchte die Witwe angesprochen werden, platziert sie auf dem Grab die Gießkanne mit dem Ausguss nach vorne
"In unserem Viertel, idyllisch zwischen Weinberg und Wald, reichte es unterwegs zu sein, um verdächtig zu sein. Hattest du dunklere Haut, fuhr keine Streife an dir vorbei."-Saša Stanišić, Möchte die Witwe angesprochen werden, platziert sie auf dem Grab die Gießkanne mit dem Ausguss nach vorne
"Mit Hermann war nicht alles leicht gewesen, aber das meiste. Und darauf kommt es im gemeinsamen Leben an, dass man es miteinander meistens leicht hat. Mit Hermann war immer jemand da: Hermann. Mit He…"-Saša Stanišić, Möchte die Witwe angesprochen werden, platziert sie auf dem Grab die Gießkanne mit dem Ausguss nach vorne
28. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- nature
29. Die Nachricht
By: Doris Knecht
3.83
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Das Leben, das sie einst mit Mann und Kinder führte, wurde durch ein Unglück jäh beendet, aber sie … read more
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- fiction
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30. The Valley at the Centre of the World
By: Malachy Tallack
3.79
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
Set against the rugged west coast of Shetland, in a community faced with extinction, The Valley at … read more
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31. Punished
By: Ann-Helén Laestadius
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen c… read more
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