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…
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1. The Editor's Wife
By: Clare Chambers
3.95
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in be… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
By: Deborah Moggach
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780812982428 When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London… read more
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- travel
- fiction
- contemporary
"Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end."-Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
"The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment."-Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
"Douglas Ainslie: Look. Can you hear yourself? Can you? Do you have any idea what a terrible person you have become? All you give out is this endless negativity, a refusal to see any kind of light and…"-Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
3. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
By: Janice Galloway
3.84
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
4. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
5. The Silver Darlings
By: Neil M. Gunn
3.99
Format: 208 pages,
The tale of lives won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords. The dawning of the herring fisheries… read more
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- classics
- scotland
- fiction
6. Trumpet
By: Jackie Kay
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate worki… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
7. 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
- fiction
8. 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
- school
- travel
- read for school
- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Las grietas de Jara
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
?Que precio hay que pagar para dar una vuelta de timon y decidirse a vivir los propios suenos? Aunq… read more
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10. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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
11. 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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12. The Lonely Londoners
By: Sam Selvon
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more
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13. Sunset Song (A Scots Quair, #1)
By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Divided between her love of the land and the harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally… 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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- classics
- fiction
15. 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
- contemporary
"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
16. 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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- travel
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
17. Broken Light
By: Joanne Harris
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
18. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
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- fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
19. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
20. The Catch (Slough House, #6.5)
By: Mick Herron
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Set in the same world as the Slough House series, this explosive novella by bestselling spy-master … read more
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- fiction
21. A Dry Spell
By: Clare Chambers
3.91
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - WINNER of the 2022 British Book Awards Page-T… read more
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- fiction
