The Solitary Summer
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
This delightful companion to the famousElizabeth and Her German Gardenis a witty, lyrical account o…
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1. Sisters by a River
By: Barbara Trapido , Barbara Comyns
3.81
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. On the banks of the River Avon, six sister… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
2. 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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- british literature
"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
3. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- historical fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
4. Hudson River Bracketed
By: Edith Wharton
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
One of Edith Wharton's unjustly neglected novels, Hudson River Bracketed features two strong protag… read more
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- fiction
5. Summer
By: Edith Wharton
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Le Grand Meaulnes
By: Alain-Fournier , None
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. A House and Its Head
By: Francine Prose , Ivy Compton-Burnett
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in w… read more
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8. The Solitary Summer
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
This delightful companion to the famousElizabeth and Her German Gardenis a witty, lyrical account o… read more
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- british literature
- germany
- gardening
- fiction
- historical fiction
- nature
9. The Strays
By: Emily Bitto
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
On her first day at a new school, Lily meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
10. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- classics
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- british literature
11. The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
By: Edith Holden
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On 1st January 1906, Edith Holden made the first entry in a diary which was to record the countrysi… read more
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12. Memento Mori
By: Muriel Spark
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on … read more
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13. Journey into the Past
By: Stefan Zweig , Anthea Bell , André Aciman
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the… read more
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14. Fraud
By: Anita Brookner
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant… read more
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15. Bramton Wick
By: Elizabeth Fair
4.00
Format: None pages,
Bramton Wick was a small, compact community riddled with polite social politics. The town could be … read more
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16. The Lark
By: E. Nesbit
3.80
Format: 263 pages, None
"When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've got - to have a lark entirely on our own… read more
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- classics
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17. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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- classics
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18. Nordstadt
By: Annika Büsing
4.07
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Im Norden der Stadt hängen die Hoffnungen so tief wie der Novemberhimmel. Wer hier liebt, rechnet n… read more
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19. Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire
By: Simon Thomas
3.52
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Stories for Winter is a collection of short stories that take their inspiration from this cold, sno… read more
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- fiction
20. The Oracles
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Oracles was the twelfth novel published by Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) and its titular subject… read more
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