Blaming
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Jonathan Keates
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentiet…
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1. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
2. A Far Cry from Kensington
By: Muriel Spark
3.83
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more
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"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
3. The Tortoise and the Hare
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life… read more
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4. Precious Bane
By: Mary Webb
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A compelling story of passion, with an enduring air of enchantment throughout, Precious Bane is a n… read more
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"What did I do, I, that knew his smile was my summer?"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Perché io credo che l'anima agisca sul corpo, che lo vivifichi col suo soffio e lo ricopra di un velo che lo fa sembrare più bello di quanto non sia."-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"There are misfortunes that make you spring up and rush to save yourself, but, there are others that are too bad for this, for they leave nought to do. Then a stillness falls on the soul, like the sti…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Not only had he looked at me, but he had looked with favour and longing, and though I knew it was only because the truth was hidden from him, yet I was glad of what I had, as a winter bird is, that w…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
5. The Return of the Soldier
By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more
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"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
6. No Fond Return of Love
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping o… read more
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7. Crampton Hodnet
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more
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8. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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10. The Sweet Dove Died
By: Barbara Pym
3.91
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter over a Victorian flower book brings together Humphrey, an antiques dealer, his n… read more
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11. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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12. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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13. Blaming
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Jonathan Keates
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentiet… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- 20th century
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14. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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15. The Bachelors
By: Muriel Spark
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelor… read more
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16. 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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17. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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18. London Belongs to Me
By: Ed Glinert , Norman Collins
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Meis a Dickensian romp through wo… read more
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19. 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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20. Loitering with Intent
By: Muriel Spark
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happil… read more
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21. Memento Mori
By: Muriel Spark
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on … read more
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22. A Few Green Leaves
By: Barbara Pym
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
In A FEW GREEN LEAVES the author combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with many of th… read more
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23. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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26. An Academic Question
By: Barbara Pym
3.58
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tediu… read more
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27. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more
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29. Here We Are
By: Graham Swift
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In his newest novel, acclaimed author Graham Swift marries the erratic devastations of reality with… read more
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30. The Night in Question
By: Susan Fletcher
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more
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"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
