Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
By: Leah Broad
4.46
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a st…
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1. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
2. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more
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"Boil my brains!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
3. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By: Alex Ross
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- classical music
4. The Piano Teacher
By: Joachim Neugroschel , Elfriede Jelinek
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
The Piano Teacher,the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize i… read more
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5. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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6. The Joy of Music
By: Tim Page , Leonard Bernstein
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wond… read more
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7. Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
By: Anna Beer
3.79
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Sounds and Sweet Airsreveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable composers, taking the reader on… read more
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8. Vile Bodies
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more
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9. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
10. The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)
By: Kate Mosse
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The Ci… read more
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11. House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
By: Alan Bennett
3.81
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution aga… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
12. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
13. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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14. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
By: Jeremy Eichler
4.54
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wart… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. The Adventures of China Iron
By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more
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"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
16. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
17. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
19. Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime
By: Agatha Christie
3.90
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.Autumn is the season … read more
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20. Weak Teeth
By: Lynsey May
3.28
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Ellis's life has crumbled without warning. Her boyfriend has fallen in love with someone else, her … read more
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21. The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle
By: Neil Blackmore
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Benjamin and Edgar Bowen embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, they are ready to meet People of Qu… read more
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22. Fifty Words for Snow
By: Nancy Campbell
3.85
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
Fifty international words for snow – explored by an award-winning writer – that will enchant reader… read more
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- history
23. Sincerity
By: Carol Ann Duffy
3.70
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns with Sincerity , her last full collection as Poet Laureate, … read more
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24. A Helping Hand
By: Celia Dale
3.60
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Josh and Maisie Evans are Good Samaritans and enjoy lending a helping hand to lonely elderly ladies… read more
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25. Where Angels Fear to Tread
By: E.M. Forster
3.60
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton jour… read more
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"We were mad - drunk with rebellion."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"Pretty things pack just the same as ugly ones."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
26. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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27. What
By: John Cooper Clarke
4.02
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
'Nothing short of dazzling' – Alex Turner Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has rev… read more
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28. Tom Stoppard: A Life
By: Hermione Lee
4.24
Format: 978 pages, Hardcover
With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figure… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
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29. Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's 11 Symphonies
By: David Vernon
4.11
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
The Amazon No. 1 Bestseller'A beautiful and important book.' — Marina Mahler'Highly recommended' — … read more
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30. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more
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31. Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
By: Leah Broad
4.46
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a st… read more
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- biography
- classical music
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- nonfiction
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