6 best-selling crime books like The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger

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…

If you liked the crime plot in The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Sinekli Bakkal by Halide Edib Adıvar

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
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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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3. A Wreath For the Enemy

By: Pamela Frankau

4.03

Format: 453 pages, mass market

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  • classics
  • fiction
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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
Cover of Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon, William T. Vollmann, Marc Romano

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
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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
Cover of The Pier Falls: And Other Stories by Mark Haddon

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

Similar categories in Emeric Pressburger's The Glass Pearls book and Emeric Pressburger's The Glass Pearls

  • classics
  • historical
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
  • crime
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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
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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
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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

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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

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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

Similar categories in Brigitte Reimann's Siblings book and Emeric Pressburger's The Glass Pearls

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Emeric Pressburger's The Glass Pearls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
  • crime
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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

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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
Cover of The Pasha of Cuisine by Saygın Ersin

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

Similar categories in Saygın Ersin's The Pasha of Cuisine book and Emeric Pressburger's The Glass Pearls

  • 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

Cover of The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes

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

Similar categories in Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters book and Emeric Pressburger's The Glass Pearls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People by Stuart Maconie

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
Cover of A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel

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

Cover of Sarı Vosvos by Mete Karagöl

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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Halide Edib Adıvar

3.88

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Pamela Frankau

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie

4.27

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Georges Simenon , William T. Vollmann , Marc Romano

4.18

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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David Nicholls

4.08

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Anne Enright

3.55

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