Brazzaville Beach
By: William Boyd
4.10
Format: 224 pages, ebook
In the heart of a civil war-torn African nation, primate researcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking…
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1. The Ghost
By: Robert Harris
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland; Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii … read more
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"Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider a…"-Robert Harris, The Ghost
2. Holy Fools
By: Joanne Harris
3.60
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the year 1605 a young woman, hiding from her past, takes up the veil becoming Soeur Auguste. Fiv… read more
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"Love not often, but forever."-Joanne Harris, Holy Fools
3. A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five … read more
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"Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of…"-Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
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5. The Critic (Enzo Files, #2)
By: Peter May
4.01
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
Gil Petty, the worlds number one wine critic, went missing during a tasting tour of the little-know… read more
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6. Brazzaville Beach
By: William Boyd
4.10
Format: 224 pages, ebook
In the heart of a civil war-torn African nation, primate researcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking… read more
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7. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
8. Making it Up
By: Penelope Lively
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Upis Pen… read more
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9. Los Alamos
By: Joseph Kanon
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A successful thriller tells an exciting, satisfying story and lets us look at the lives of some int… read more
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10. I fantasmi del cappellaio
By: Georges Simenon , Laura Frausin Guarino
4.00
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Una piccola citta, La Rochelle, immersa in una gelida pioggia autunnale; borghesi all'apparenza ins… read more
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11. Human Traces
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand… read more
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12. In the Morning I'll be Gone (Sean Duffy #3)
By: Adrian McKinty
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A spectacular escape and a man-hunt that could change the future of a nation - and lay one man's pa… read more
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13. Spiderweb
By: Penelope Lively
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and… read more
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14. When God Was a Rabbit
By: Sarah Winman
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When God was a Rabbitis an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Sp… read more
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15. Maid In Waiting
By: John Galsworthy
3.85
Format: 238 pages,
Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthys Forsyte Chronicles, … read more
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16. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
17. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
18. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
19. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
20. The Scarlet Papers
By: Matthew Richardson
4.33
Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition
VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more
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21. 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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22. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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23. A Spy Alone
By: Charles Beaumont
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more
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24. Shanghai
By: Joseph Kanon
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more
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25. Under Occupation (Night Soldiers, #15)
By: Alan Furst
3.41
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
From the master of espionage and intrigue, this novel about heroic resistance fighters in 1942 occu… read more
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26. Broken Light
By: Joanne Harris
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more
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27. The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction
By: Robert Goddard
4.31
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind… read more
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28. Light Over Liskeard
By: Louis de Bernières
3.72
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future.Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work… read more
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29. You Can't See Me (Forbidden Iceland, #4)
By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
A wealthy Icelandic family gathers for a reunion in a remote hotel on the isolated lava fields, but… read more
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30. The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1)
By: Jill Johnson
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
I've always been better with plants than people . . . Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical … read more
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31. On Java Road
By: Lawrence Osborne
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more
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