The Far Cry
By: Emma Smith , Emma Smith
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Teresa's elderly, willful father drags her off to India to spare her from the clutches of her mothe…
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1. Greenery Street
By: Denis Mackail , Rebecca Cohen
3.87
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
PG Wodehouse described this novel as 'so good that it makes one feel that it's the only possible wa… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- modern classics
"Is one changing all the time, then?' she asks. 'Am I changing - without knowing it?"-Denis Mackail, Greenery Street
"Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified. Now, however, we look forward almost eagerly to …"-Denis Mackail, Greenery Street
2. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
3. The Home-Maker
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Although this novel first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the p… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. The Far Cry
By: Emma Smith , Emma Smith
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Teresa's elderly, willful father drags her off to India to spare her from the clutches of her mothe… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- india
- fiction
- 20th century
- historical fiction
- modern classics
5. A House in the Country
By: Jocelyn Playfair , Ruth Gorb
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The great interest of Jocelyn Playfair's book for modern readers is its complete authenticity. Set … read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
6. Murder of a Lady (Dr. Hailey, #12)
By: Anthony Wynne
5.00
Format: 176 pages,
Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
7. The Monogram Murders
By: Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah
3.13
Format: 192 pages, ebook
'I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon...' Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The Longest Journey
By: E.M. Forster , Gilbert Adair , None
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amou… read more
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10. Brook Evans
By: Susan Glaspell
3.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
A novel written in the same year as Lady Chatterley's Lover about the effect of a love affair on th… read more
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11. High Wages
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.24
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
A 1930 novel by Persephone Books' most popular writer about a girl who sets up a dress shop. read more
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12. Tender Is the Night
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.78
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- modern classics
- 20th century
"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
13. Goodbye to Berlin
By: Christopher Isherwood
3.95
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more
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14. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more
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15. Diary of a Provincial Lady
By: E.M. Delafield
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
When Diary of a Provincial Ladywas first published in 1933, critics on both sides of the Atlantic g… read more
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16. The Old Curiosity Shop
By: Charles Dickens , Norman Page
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, C… read more
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17. 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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- fiction
"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
18. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
19. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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- fiction
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
20. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- fiction
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
21. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
22. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
23. 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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- fiction
- british literature
24. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- classics
25. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
26. 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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- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
27. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
28. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
29. Milton Place
By: Elisabeth de Waal
4.05
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Anita, who has lived in Austria through the Second World War, comes to live in a large English coun… read more
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- classics
- modern classics
- fiction
30. One Afternoon
By: Siân James
4.10
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
The preface to One Afternoon is by Emma Schofield, the editor of the Welsh Arts Review. She writes … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
31. The Other Day
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
This autobiography describes in a charming and insightful way DW’s first twelve years (she was born… read more
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- british literature
