A Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed about Love whilst Dying
By: Joe Hammond
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A Short History of Falling – like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air – …
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1. The Camomile Lawn
By: Mary Wesley
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t… read more
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2. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
By: Tim Burton
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burtonhas … read more
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3. The Veins of the Ocean
By: Patricia Engel
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
"Engel has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment... She wr… read more
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4. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
By: John Banville
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more
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"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
5. Die Wut, die bleibt
By: Mareike Fallwickl
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Aufwühlend, wütend, hellsichtig: Mareike Fallwickls neuer Roman. Helene, Mutter von drei Kindern… read more
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6. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
7. What Are You Going Through
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.74
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more
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"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
8. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
9. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
10. Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
By: Sandi Toksvig
4.39
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, acti… read more
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"For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to …"-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
"I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don’t do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, …"-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
"Margrie himself was made the first ‘Mr London’, a title which has the pleasing sense of them having had a swimsuit round in the competition. Margrie believed that he was a perfect example of a new ev…"-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
11. Improvement
By: Joan Silber
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young sing… read more
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"Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty."-Joan Silber, Improvement
12. My Thoughts Exactly
By: Lily Allen
3.97
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I … read more
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13. The Better Sister
By: Alafair Burke
3.79
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
From Alafair Burke—New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife—comes another twi… read more
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14. Isaac and the Egg
By: Bobby Palmer
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this bestselling modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about… read more
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15. Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
By: Rachel Clarke
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf … read more
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16. Tell Me a Secret
By: Jane Fallon
3.79
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
**The million copy bestselling author of Faking Friends and My Sweet Revenge is back - pre-order no… read more
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17. Where Are We Now?
By: Glenn Patterson
3.07
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
When he unexpectly loses his job, Herbie struggles to find a purpose. His wife, the great love of h… read more
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18. Permission to Dream
By: Chris Gardner
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG idea… read more
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19. When I Had A Little Sister
By: Catherine Simpson
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
When I had a Little Sister is a memoir about a Lancashire farming family, whose love of their land … read more
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20. The Louder I Will Sing
By: Lee Lawrence
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who wo… read more
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21. A Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed about Love whilst Dying
By: Joe Hammond
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A Short History of Falling – like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air – … read more
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- memoir
- death
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- disability
- audiobook
