A House Through Time
By: David Olusoga
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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1. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
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- british literature
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
2. The Architect's Apprentice
By: Elif Shafak
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the heigh… read more
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- historical
3. Funny Girl
By: Nick Hornby
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in 1960's London, Funny Girlis a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie … read more
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- british literature
4. The Impossible Dead
By: Ian Rankin
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more
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5. Murder on the Ballarat Train (Phryne Fisher, #3)
By: Kerry Greenwood
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to… read more
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6. Berta Isla
By: Javier Marías
4.30
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
<> Muy jovenes se conocieron Berta Isla y Tomas Nevinson en Madrid, y muy pronta fue su determinaci… read more
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7. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
8. The Lonely Londoners
By: Sam Selvon
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more
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9. 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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- british literature
10. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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- historical
11. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- british literature
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
12. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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- historical
- british literature
13. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
14. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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- historical
- british literature
15. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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- british literature
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
16. 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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17. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
18. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)
By: M.R. Carey
4.17
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more
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19. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
20. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- nonfiction
21. A Killing in November (DI Ryan Wilkins, #1)
By: Simon Mason
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classe… read more
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- british literature
22. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
By: A.J. Pearce
4.19
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more
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- historical
- british literature
"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
23. The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)
By: John Connolly
4.15
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker’s hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes … read more
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24. The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)
By: Kate Mosse
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse return… read more
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- historical
25. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne
By: Freya North
4.25
Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition
When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more
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26. The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
By: Sean Lusk
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing... Leadenhall… read more
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27. The Bookseller's Tale
By: Martin Latham
3.81
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life."-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book’s cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompan…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appea…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
28. Six Motives for Murder (Brackerley Prison Mysteries #2)
By: Frances Brody
4.16
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Yorkshire, 1969. Nell Lewis is four months into her new role as governor of HMP Brackerley when the… read more
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29. A House Through Time
By: David Olusoga
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. Peo… read more
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- architecture
- history
- british literature
- historical
- nonfiction
30. 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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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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