The Chemistry of Tears
By: Peter Carey
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden de…
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1. The Third Policeman
By: Flann O'Brien
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more
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"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
2. Zoeken naar Eileen W.
By: Leon de Winter
3.13
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Een katholiek Noordiers meisje raakt in verwachting van een protestantse jongeman en komt daardoor … read more
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3. Half a Life
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate … read more
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4. The Dollmaker of Krakow
By: R.M. Romero
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain… read more
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5. The Acid House
By: Irvine Welsh
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Description from the inside sleeve: This scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous colle… read more
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6. Diggers (Bromeliad Trilogy, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'And Grimma said, We have two choices. We can run, or we hide. And they said, Which shall we do? Sh… read more
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7. The Chemistry of Tears
By: Peter Carey
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden de… read more
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8. Marabou Stork Nightmares
By: Irvine Welsh
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspottingand The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been ha… read more
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9. The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
By: Teddy Wayne
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Megastar Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old icon of bubblegum pop, knows that the fans don't love him… read more
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10. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
By: Edward P. Jones
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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11. Arcadia
By: Iain Pears
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of o… read more
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12. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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13. Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes
By: Terry Pratchett , Mark Beech
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four-inch-tall nomes that humans never see. It is … read more
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14. If Not Now, When?
By: Primo Levi , William Weaver
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, … read more
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15. The Quarry
By: Iain Banks
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying o… read more
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17. The Hummingbird Effect
By: Kate Mildenhall
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more
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18. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
19. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
20. Death on the Trans-Siberian Express (Olga Pushkin #1)
By: C.J. Farrington
3.08
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Roslazny - a sleepy Russian town where intrigue and murder combine to disturb the icy si… read more
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21. Frankissstein: A Love Story
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.54
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more
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"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
