The London Train
By: Tessa Hadley
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Hadleyis a lovely, subtly teasing writer." --New York Times Book Review Long-listed forthe Orange …
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1. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.72
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended"-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
2. The Beautiful Dead
By: Belinda Bauer
3.80
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
There’s no safety in numbers . . . Eve Singer needs death. With her career as a TV crime reporter … read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- british literature
"To catch a killer, one must think like a killer"-Belinda Bauer, The Beautiful Dead
"Nothing sold like murder, and death was how she paid the mortgage."-Belinda Bauer, The Beautiful Dead
"Then he stared down at the twinkling lights and sobbed, "All my stars fell out of the sky."-Belinda Bauer, The Beautiful Dead
"She was standing where the artist had stood. Vincent Van Gogh had stood right here and watched these creamy-pink clouds roll in, watched these cypresses sway in the breeze, travelled every muddy inch…"-Belinda Bauer, The Beautiful Dead
3. My Lover's Lover
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Lily slips on the sidewalk outside a London gallery and literally falls at the feet of a stran… read more
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- relationships
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
4. The London Train
By: Tessa Hadley
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Hadleyis a lovely, subtly teasing writer." --New York Times Book Review Long-listed forthe Orange … read more
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- relationships
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
5. Burning Bright
By: Helen Dunmore
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to London, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Fin… read more
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6. The Beginning of Spring
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In March 1913, Frank Reid's wife abruptly leaves him and Moscow for her native England. Naturally, … read more
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7. Nora Webster
By: Colm Tóibín
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed and beloved authors comes this magnificent new… read more
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8. Man at the Helm
By: Nina Stibbe
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
My sister and I and our little brother were born (in that order) into a very good situation and apa… read more
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10. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
11. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
12. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
13. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
14. The Caretaker
By: Ron Rash
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
15. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
16. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
17. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
18. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. 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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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
20. The Gardener
By: Salley Vickers
3.57
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmother… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
21. Broken Light
By: Joanne Harris
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- british literature
22. Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
23. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
By: Eleni Kyriacou
4.18
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more
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- womens
- fiction
24. Poor Deer
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more
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- novels
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- contemporary
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
25. The Exhibitionist
By: Charlotte Mendelson
3.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
26. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
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- relationships
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
27. These Days
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.71
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more
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- novels
- fiction
28. The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1)
By: Jill Johnson
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
I've always been better with plants than people . . . Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical … read more
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- contemporary
29. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
30. The Inheritance
By: Joanna Goodman
3.53
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
31. The Oceans and the Stars
By: Mark Helprin
4.46
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Gre… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
