The Dream Lover: Short Stories
By: William Boyd
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Funny, moving and sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status os one of Engli…
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1. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
By: Anne Tyler
3.81
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimo… read more
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- fiction
"I'm falling into disrepair"-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
"Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth. 'What, cremation?' she asked. 'Death."-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
"There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and …"-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
"انت تصدقنى، أليس كذلك؟ فأنا لست عمياء. اعرف متى اكون غير معقولة. احيانا اقف خارج نفسى وأراقب كل شىء، منفصلة تماما. اقول لنفسى "توقفى الان" ، لكن الامر يبدو كما لو كنت... اتيه عجبا بنفسى، على ان اهاجم…"-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
2. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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- fiction
3. The Dream Lover: Short Stories
By: William Boyd
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Funny, moving and sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status os one of Engli… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
4. Us
By: David Nicholls
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against a… read more
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5. Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
By: Ben Macintyre
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most re… read more
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6. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
7. The Girl at the Lion d'Or
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
"Beautifully written and--extraordinarily moving."--The Sunday Times(London) From the author of the… read more
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8. The Line of Beauty
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more
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9. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
10. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
11. The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
12. The Heavens
By: Sandra Newman
3.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York, 2000. Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, … read more
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- fiction
"It was as if they had never been apart."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"She could hide in this small, dull life."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"But this was reality, occluded and delicate."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"It was a white pandemonium with the wrong past."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
13. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
14. 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
- audiobook
15. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- audiobook
16. 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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- fiction
- audiobook
17. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- audiobook
18. Here We Are
By: Graham Swift
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In his newest novel, acclaimed author Graham Swift marries the erratic devastations of reality with… read more
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- audiobook
19. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
20. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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- audiobook
"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
21. The Confession
By: Jessie Burton
3.91
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly… read more
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- audiobook
"[...] And women are always like that.' 'What do you mean?' 'Well, all the women I know who've left long-term relationships in their thirties checked out of it long before they actually did. They went…"-Jessie Burton, The Confession
