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 …
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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
- fiction
- british literature
"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. Elizabeth Is Missing
By: Emma Healey
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also a heartbrea… read more
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- fiction
3. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole #2)
By: Sue Townsend
3.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
At sixteen, Adrian Mole's life continues to be nothing but a set of tragic circumstances: His tempe… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
4. This Must Be the Place
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.77
Format: None pages,
A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Award--an irre… read more
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- fiction
5. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more
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- world war ii
- war
- fiction
- british literature
"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
6. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more
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- world war ii
- war
- fiction
- british literature
7. 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
8. Frenchman's Creek
By: Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson
3.98
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside wi… read more
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"You have no hobby then?" "Moths interest me, my lady."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I am notorious," said Dona, "for making unfortunate remarks."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"—in reality it was escape she wanted, escape from her own self—"-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I had become like a prisoner in chains, and the dungeon was deep."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
9. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households pre… read more
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- world war ii
- fiction
- british literature
10. 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
- fiction
- british literature
11. 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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- british literature
- war
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- fiction
12. The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspens… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
13. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more
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- world war ii
- war
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- british literature
14. All Change (Cazalet Chronicles #5)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
15. Greenbanks
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.10
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
An early novel by Persephone's most popular author about an early 20th century family and, in parti… read more
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16. 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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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
17. The Matchmaker
By: Stella Gibbons
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Co… read more
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19. No Signposts in the Sea
By: Vita Sackville-West
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recent… read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. William - An Englishman
By: Nicola Beauman , Cicely Hamilton
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Williamwas 'written in a rage in 1918; this extraordinary novel... is a passionate assertion of the… read more
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23. Instructions for a Heatwave
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richl… read more
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24. Elmet
By: Fiona Mozley
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction - Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perr… read more
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25. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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26. 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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- fiction
- british literature
27. Miss Benson's Beetle
By: Rachel Joyce
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
28. 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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- british literature
29. The Hopkins Manuscript
By: R.C. Sherriff
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered sp… read more
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30. 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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"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
31. Out of the Window
By: Madeline Linford
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The compelling, thought-provoking story of Ursula, the daughter of a wealthy Mancunian family, who … read more
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