Mapp and Lucia (Lucia, #4)
By: E.F. Benson
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to he…
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1. Kenilworth
By: Walter Scott
3.68
Format: 541 pages, Hardcover
In this exciting novel, the legend of Amy Robsart and her secret marriage to the Earl of Leicester … read more
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"It is ill arguing against anything from its misuse."-Walter Scott, Kenilworth
"I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake."-Walter Scott, Kenilworth
2. Archangel
By: Robert Harris
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of acad… read more
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- fiction
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3. Mapp and Lucia (Lucia, #4)
By: E.F. Benson
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to he… read more
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- comedy
4. They Were Sisters
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Three sisters marry very different men and the choices they make determine whether they will flouri… read more
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5. Little Deaths
By: Emma Flint
3.96
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, i… read more
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6. The Scapegoat
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.16
Format: 315 pages, ebook
By chance, John and Jean--one English, the other French--meet in a provincial railway station. Thei… read more
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7. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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8. 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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9. Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life
By: Nina Stibbe
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and tr… read more
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10. 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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11. Elizabeth and Her German Garden
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel… read more
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"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
12. 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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13. 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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15. 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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16. 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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"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
17. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
18. Other Women
By: Emma Flint
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they’d kill to protect . . . From the author of Li… read more
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19. A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
By: Hilary Mantel
4.33
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a noveli… read more
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"Mourning is work. It is not simply being sad. It is naming your pain. It is witnessing the sorrow of others, drawing out the shape of loss. It is natural and necessary and there is no healing without…"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
"How nice, then, to go to Waterstones and not to have to disinfect yourself when you get home; yet sometimes as a reader I feel nostalgic for disorder, for the random and unpredictable. I find myself …"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
