A Countryman's Spring Notebook
By: Adrian Bell
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A seasonal selection from the weekly column Bell wrote from 1950 to 1980 for the Eastern Daily Pres…
Want to Read"Old leaves are galloping over the new grass."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"She could no more escape the conviction that rhubarb was a herb of all the virtues than the modern generation can avoid the illusion that Lady Chatterley's Lover is great literature."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"March' is a sharp word, brusque and bracing, like its month. 'January', "February'; they meander like rivers; 'April' is like the sound of raindrops on the windowpane; but 'March' is a gust of wind flinging grit."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"There was wonder in that insubstantial pointer; it gave me news that no clockwork could do. Time was not a fixed series of moments, it said, but something moving like a flower that grows, growing perhaps even like a flower; or traveling the minutes like the spokes of a shadowy wheel turning once a day, and perhaps going somewhere or somewhen, carrying me along with it"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
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1. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple n… read more
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"الناس في الظلام مختلفين كثيرا"-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"إن الجرائم الصغيرة تؤدي إلى الجرائم الكبيرة .. أليس كذلك ؟"-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
2. Mrs. Miniver
By: Jan Struther , Greer Garson
3.92
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed m… read more
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"It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person."-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's."-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye …"-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late sum…"-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
3. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
4. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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5. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #9)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Greg… read more
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6. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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7. The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes...One T… read more
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8. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
9. Lark Rise to Candleford
By: Richard Mabey , Flora Thompson
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Gre… read more
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10. Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.72
Format: 272 pages,
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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11. Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Six people reunite to remember beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a year before. The loving… read more
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13. Ordeal by Innocence
By: Agatha Christie
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in… read more
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14. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Motives for Murder: A fortune in uncut diamonds, hidden by an eccentric old man - A woman's love, t… read more
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15. The Making of a Marchioness
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , C.D. Williams
4.62
Format: None pages,
First published in 1901, The Making of a Marchionessfollows thirty-something Emily who lives alone,… read more
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16. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
17. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
18. Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.11
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harr… read more
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"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry,…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
19. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
20. Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.97
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Who fired the fatal shot that snuffed out the life of miserly old Folliner during a London blackout… read more
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"Mind the cat."-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)
21. 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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22. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat … read more
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23. Slightly Foxed #80: ‘Arrows of Revelation’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl… read more
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24. Slightly Foxed 79: 'U and I and Me’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl… read more
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25. Slightly Foxed 77: 'Laughter in the Library'
By: Gail Pirkis
4.11
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble visits old New York with Edith Wharton • Daisy Hay gets political with Anthony Tro… read more
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26. Slightly Foxed Issue 73: ‘A Year in Barsetshire’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl… read more
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27. A Countryman's Spring Notebook
By: Adrian Bell
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A seasonal selection from the weekly column Bell wrote from 1950 to 1980 for the Eastern Daily Pres… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Old leaves are galloping over the new grass."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"She could no more escape the conviction that rhubarb was a herb of all the virtues than the modern generation can avoid the illusion that Lady Chatterley's Lover is great literature."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"March' is a sharp word, brusque and bracing, like its month. 'January', "February'; they meander like rivers; 'April' is like the sound of raindrops on the windowpane; but 'March' is a gust of wind f…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"There was wonder in that insubstantial pointer; it gave me news that no clockwork could do. Time was not a fixed series of moments, it said, but something moving like a flower that grows, growing per…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
28. Slightly Foxed No. 83: Benefit of Clergy
By: Gail Pirkis
4.27
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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29. Tea on Sunday
By: Lettice Cooper
3.72
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Alberta Mansbridge has invited eight people to have tea: her doctor, her administrator, two protégé… read more
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