Our Street: East End Life in the Second World War
By: Gilda O'Neill
3.99
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Our Street is the perfect companion to Gilda O'Neill's bestselling My East End. This book focuses o…
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1. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
By: Bill Bryson
3.81
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
2. I See You
By: Clare Mackintosh
3.87
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
The twisty, gripping number one bestseller from Richard and Judy Book Club winner Clare Mackintosh,… read more
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"How fast can you run? When you really have to? In heels and a work skirt, with your bag banging against your side: how fast? When you’re late for your train and you have to get home, and you race dow…"-Clare Mackintosh, I See You
3. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By: Fannie Flagg
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-c… read more
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"Quienes más sufren son quienes menos lo dicen."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
4. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
By: Ian Mortimer
3.87
Format: 172 pages,
The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-160… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
5. The War on Our Doorstep: London's East End and How the Blitz Changed it Forever
By: Harriet Salisbury , Museum of London
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. In the early 20th centur… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
- british literature
6. September
By: Rosamunde Pilcher
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
As spring comes to Scotland and the hills burst into life, a dance is planned for September. The in… read more
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- british literature
7. The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)
By: Colin Dexter
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
The final Inspector Morse mystery finds the cunning detective and the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis… read more
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- british literature
8. Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
3.77
Format: 32 pages,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. The Muse
By: Jessie Burton
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller A picture hides a thousand words . . . On a hot July day in … read more
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10. Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
By: Colin Dexter
3.84
Format: 326 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector … read more
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- british literature
"As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin."-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
"Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from un…"-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
"As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin. It was like deferring a long-p…"-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
11. Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
By: Robert Galbraith
4.22
Format: 609 pages, Kindle Edition
Cormoran Strike is back, with his assistant Robin Ellacott, in a mystery based around soldiers retu… read more
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"Are we tryina stop this wedding, Bunsen?"-Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
"Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits."-Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
"Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it."-Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
"I do," said Robin in a ringing voice, looking straight into the eyes, not of her stony-faced new husband, but of the battered and bloodied man who had just sent her flowers crashing to the floor."-Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
12. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
By: Adam Kay
4.12
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
13. The Favor
By: Nicci French
3.42
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
In this twisty new stand-alone novel from internationally bestselling author Nicci French, a young … read more
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- british literature
14. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- british literature
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
15. 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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16. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
By: Jessica Pan
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for r… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
"That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I hate flakiness, and I blame the Facebook ‘Maybe’ button,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I'm giddy just imagining the shit I'll get up to when I'm eighty."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I watched my first penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2014 (Brazil vs. Chile): men cried, I cried, Neymar cried. I was done for. I loved it."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
17. The Girls Who Disappeared
By: Claire Douglas
3.90
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that… read more
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18. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- british literature
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
19. The Secret Messenger
By: Mandy Robotham
4.15
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The highly awaited new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The German Midwife. Venice, … read more
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20. Our Street: East End Life in the Second World War
By: Gilda O'Neill
3.99
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Our Street is the perfect companion to Gilda O'Neill's bestselling My East End. This book focuses o… read more
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- history
- british literature
- war
- autobiography
- nonfiction
