Plenty Under the Counter
By: Kathleen Hewitt
3.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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1. Eastern Approaches
By: Fitzroy Maclean
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefi… read more
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- world war ii
"War it has been said, is diplomacy continued by other means."-Fitzroy Maclean, Eastern Approaches
"After a long chilly night's drive, straining our eyes in the darkness for unseen obstacles and pitfalls, we found that there was a lot to be said for a dram of whisky stirred into our porridge. It ma…"-Fitzroy Maclean, Eastern Approaches
"Seen from the angle of someone about to plunge headlong into it, the turbulent stream of Balkan history had a new fascination. The details were as confusing as ever, but certain basic characteristics…"-Fitzroy Maclean, Eastern Approaches
"Two things struck me about this strange group over which Tito presided with a kind of amused benevolence; first their complete devotion to the Old Man, as they called him, and secondly the fact that …"-Fitzroy Maclean, Eastern Approaches
2. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
4. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
5. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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6. The Weather in the Streets
By: Rosamond Lehmann , Carmen Callil
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streetsshows us Olivia Curtis … read more
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7. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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8. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
9. The Shooting Party
By: Isabel Colegate
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Ox… read more
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10. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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11. Lud-in-the-Mist
By: Neil Gaiman , Hope Mirrlees , Douglas A. Anderson
4.43
Format: 269 pages,
Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two… read more
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12. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
13. The Trial
By: Rob Rinder
4.24
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more
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- crime
- fiction
- british literature
"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."-Rob Rinder, The Trial
14. The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp
By: Leonie Swann
3.51
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of a… read more
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- crime
- fiction
15. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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- british literature
16. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
By: James Holland
4.47
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more
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- world war ii
17. Milk Teeth
By: Jessica Andrews
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more
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- fiction
18. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
19. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- fiction
20. Berlin
By: Bea Setton
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she … read more
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- fiction
21. The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
By: Ambrose Parry
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying al… read more
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- crime
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Louis XIV of France said that only the small man desires always to be right. It struck Raven that the route to discovery and knowledge lay not in the desire to be right, but in one's preparedness to …"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
"Raven wondered how many enduring misapprehensions in medicine (and other fields, for that matter) were down to ambition and the desire to be vindicated. How many proud men had only sought out the evi…"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
"Men often talked about a woman's intuition. Ostensibly it sounded complimentary and yet its intention was usually patronising and dismissive: a term for irrational flights of fancy that these silly c…"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
22. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission
By: Rowland White
4.51
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynam… read more
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- world war ii
23. Palace of the Drowned
By: Christine Mangan
3.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Tangerine , a "taut and mesmerizing follow up...voluptuously atmosph… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"But then – she looked up, her eyes falling on the person standing there, and she could have laughed. It was only a girl. A young woman, Frankie supposed she should say, although lately anyone younger…"-Christine Mangan, Palace of the Drowned
24. Warriors for the Working Day
By: Peter Elstob
4.55
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Warriors for the Working Day is a novel written by Peter Elstob, published in 1960, with later tran… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
25. Eight Hours From England (Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics)
By: Anthony Quayle
4.02
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
“As I climbed on I thought, 'This is the end then. I have often wondered how it would come. Now I k… read more
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- world war ii
- fiction
26. The King’s Mother
By: Annie Garthwaite
4.49
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – ei… read more
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- historical fiction
27. Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties
By: Peter Doggett
3.55
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
Were the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation? Growing Up takes an un… read more
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28. Plenty Under the Counter
By: Kathleen Hewitt
3.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
David hesitated. He knew the story well enough. He knew what had happened on the sunny Sunday morni… read more
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- detective
- british literature
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
- crime
29. Mr Bunting at War
By: Robert Greenwood
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A wartime classic about the experiences of the quiet everyman and his family on the British Home Fr… read more
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30. The Battle of London 1939-45
By: Jerry White
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The definitive social history of London in the Blitz, which transformed life in the capital beyond … read more
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