Not to Disturb
By: Muriel Spark
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
A storm rages round the towers of the big house near Geneva. Behind the locked doors of the library…
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1. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
2. A Severed Head
By: Iris Murdoch
3.74
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel … read more
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"I could not see other human beings at present."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart..."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
3. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
4. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
5. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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6. Not to Disturb
By: Muriel Spark
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
A storm rages round the towers of the big house near Geneva. Behind the locked doors of the library… read more
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- humor
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- mystery
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7. Great Granny Webster
By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more
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8. Little Boy Lost
By: Marghanita Laski
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished Franc… read more
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9. Up at the Villa
By: W. Somerset Maugham
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself co… read more
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10. The Green Road
By: Anne Enright
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on … read more
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11. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
12. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
By: Alice Munro
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Lovesh… read more
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13. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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14. 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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15. Cold Heaven
By: Brian Moore
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When an appalling boating accident off the coast of Nice allegedly kills Dr. Alex Davenport, his at… read more
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16. The Forgotten Waltz
By: Anne Enright
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary novel, Anne Enright explores the momentous drama of everyday life; the volati… read more
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17. 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
18. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
19. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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20. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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