One Fine Day
By: Mollie Panter-Downes
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant siren…
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1. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- literary fiction
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- british literature
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
2. Someone at a Distance
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectato… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
"With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table."-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catc…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation th…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it,…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
3. Caroline Minuscule (William Dougal, #1)
By: Val McDermid , Andrew Taylor
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
A medieval script launches a modern treasure hunt lightly dusted with black humor... William Dougal… read more
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4. One Fine Day
By: Mollie Panter-Downes
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant siren… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- world war ii
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- historical fiction
- womens
5. Cider With Rosie
By: Laurie Lee
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosieis a charming memoir of Laurie Lee… read more
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7. At Freddie's
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"Freddie's" is the familiar name of the Temple Stage School, which supplies London's West End theat… read more
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8. Every Man for Himself
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The sinking of the world's greatest luxury liner, the invincible and magnificent S. S. Titanic, has… read more
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9. Voyage in the Dark
By: Jean Rhys , Carole Angier
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen… read more
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"Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly wh…"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
10. The Heat of the Day
By: Elizabeth Bowen
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In The Heat of the Day,Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of … read more
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11. Postscript to Poison
By: Dorothy Bowers
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cornelia Lackland ruled her house with an iron fist and a firm grasp on the pocketbook. Her late hu… read more
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12. South Riding
By: Winifred Holtby , Marion Shaw , Shirley Williams
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's greatest novel was published posth… read more
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13. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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14. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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- world war ii
15. 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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16. Clothes-Pegs
By: Susan Scarlett
3.86
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more
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17. The Marble Staircase
By: Elizabeth Fair
3.83
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
Looking back she could not remember when she had settled down to mere existence, no longer expectin… read more
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18. The Mingham Air
By: Elizabeth Fair
3.94
Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition
“The best thing one can say about the Priory is that it would have made a splendid ruin,” she state… read more
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