The Glass Pearls
By: Emeric Pressburger
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o…
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1. Sinekli Bakkal
By: Halide Edib Adıvar
3.88
Format: 476 pages, Paperback
Adıvar'ın bugüne kadar defalarca basılmış, milyonlarca okur tarafından okunmuş ve güncelliğini hiç … read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
By: Jennifer Clement
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and th… read more
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- classics
- fiction
4. Foreign Affairs
By: Alison Lurie
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in … read more
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- fiction
5. Dirty Snow
By: Georges Simenon , William T. Vollmann , Marc Romano
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get… read more
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- classics
- noir
- crime
- fiction
6. England, England
By: Julian Barnes , Jean-Pierre Aoustin
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jerry Batson, qui se definit comme un <>, va en vendre une assez sensationnelle a sir Jack Pitman, … read more
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- fiction
7. The Pier Falls: And Other Stories
By: Mark Haddon
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the N… read more
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- fiction
8. The Glass Pearls
By: Emeric Pressburger
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more
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- classics
- historical
- noir
- fiction
- historical fiction
- thriller
- crime
9. The Changeling
By: Robin Jenkins
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teacher… read more
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- classics
- fiction
10. The Shutter of Snow
By: Emily Holmes Coleman
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In a prose form as startling as its content, "The Shutter of Snow" portrays the post-partum psychos… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. Olalla
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.98
Format: 296 pages,
'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more
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12. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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13. The Widow
By: Georges Simenon
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Widowis the story of two outcasts and their fatal encounter. One is the widow herself, Tati. St… read more
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14. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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- thriller
- classics
- crime
- fiction
15. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- fiction
16. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
17. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- historical
- crime
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. All the Little Bird-Hearts
By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
3.80
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more
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- fiction
19. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- crime
- fiction
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
20. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
21. Siblings
By: Brigitte Reimann
3.55
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us … read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
22. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- thriller
- crime
23. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
24. Family Politics
By: John O'Farrell
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more
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- fiction
25. The Pasha of Cuisine
By: Saygın Ersin
4.24
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series and Richard C. Morais's The Hundred-Foot Journey, a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"In those days, he was so naive that he didn't realize that many of our woes are imaginary and the chains we forge for ourselves become heavier the longer we carry them."-Saygın Ersin, The Pasha of Cuisine
"Most people don't realize this, but every taste is related to a memory or an emotion. Flavors are part of a person's past, and are the translation of emotion into another language."-Saygın Ersin, The Pasha of Cuisine
"There's no such thing as forgetting. No matter how hard you try, you only think you've forgotten, and over time the things you think you have forgotten emerge again under another guise and tear into …"-Saygın Ersin, The Pasha of Cuisine
26. The Painter's Daughters
By: Emily Howes
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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28. Brian
By: Jeremy Cooper
3.83
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential wor… read more
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- fiction
29. 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
30. Sarı Vosvos
By: Mete Karagöl
3.19
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Kaçışı, kızgınlığı, kabullenişi, uyumsuzlukla sorumluluk arasındaki çatışmalarıyla insan ruhunun ge… read more
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31. Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places
By: Gareth E. Rees
4.07
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks - places that lie o… read more
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