The Colour
By: Rose Tremain
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's m…
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1. Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
By: Christina Thompson
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, re… read more
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- historical
2. A Hope at the End of the World (In the Land of the Long White Cloud Saga, #4)
By: Sarah Lark , D.W. Lovett
3.95
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Wi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Rhine Journey
By: Ann Schlee
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the R… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
4. Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.80
Format: None pages,
A spa-goer resorts to murder. Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
5. Charlotte Gray
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Birdsongcomes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scotti… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Long Song
By: Andrea Levy
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Man Booker Prize Nominee (2010) You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book,… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
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7. The Secret Scripture
By: Sebastian Barry
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Re… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The Blackwater Lightship
By: Colm Tóibín
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come toge… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
9. The Luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. The Millstone
By: Margaret Drabble
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
11. The Colour
By: Rose Tremain
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's m… read more
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- historical
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- contemporary
- womens
12. Tulip Fever
By: Deborah Moggach
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze wi… read more
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13. De Wertheims
By: Silvia Tennenbaum , Josephine Ruitenberg , Emmy van Beest
3.73
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
De welgestelde Joodse familie Wertheim neemt volop deel aan het bruisende culturele leven van Frank… read more
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- literary fiction
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14. The Siege (The Siege, #1)
By: Helen Dunmore
4.03
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear…"-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)
"Andrei glances up. The angle of candlelight flushes his hollow, old man’s face with youth. He smiles at her. Although his eyes are only shadows in this light, she knows their exact colour. They are b…"-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)
15. The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)
By: Mary Stewart
4.02
Format: 982 pages, Paperback
Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time … read more
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16. The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire #5)
By: Anthony Trollope , Julian Thompson
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
The Small House at Allingtonis the fifth book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester series. As with all … read more
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17. The Quincunx
By: Charles Palliser
4.02
Format: 787 pages, Paperback
The protagonist, a young man naive enough to be blind to all clues about his own hidden history (an… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"Yes, Jonnie," Emma said. "Extraordinary as it seems, it was mere coincidence that brought you to our door. It's the sort of thing that you expect to find only in a novel — and only when you know the …"-Charles Palliser, The Quincunx
18. The Sunrise
By: Victoria Hislop
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a cit… read more
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19. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- historical
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
20. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
21. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
22. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
23. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
24. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
25. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- womens
26. 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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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical 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
27. Love Is Blind
By: William Boyd
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th cent… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Naturally – she's an actress." He laughed wryly to himself. "Complications. Oh, yes." The doctor reflected and then said, "I always think a life without complications isn't really a life, you know. I…"-William Boyd, Love Is Blind
28. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Homecoming
By: Anna Enquist
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel peering deep into the passions, losses, and rev… read more
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- contemporary
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
30. From a Low and Quiet Sea
By: Donal Ryan
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
31. Better the Blood
By: Michael Bennett
4.01
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- historical fiction
