A Stitch In Time
By: Penelope Lively
3.50
Format: 296 pages,
Always, since she was quite small, Maria had been extremely confused between what she had imagined …
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1. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.65
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
2. Wild Mountain Thyme
By: Rosamunde Pilcher
3.90
Format: 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover."-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme
"For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand."-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme
"He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will."-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme
"I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent."-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme
3. The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #1)
By: Katherine Woodfine
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
You are cordially invited to attend the Grand Opening of Sinclair’s department store! Enter a wo… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1)
By: Enid Blyton
4.13
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Darrell Rivers begins her happy life at Malory Towers two terms later than the other girls, but she… read more
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- classics
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. A View of the Harbour
By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. A Traveller In Time
By: Alison Uttley
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
While visiting Thackers Manor in 1934, dreamy Penelope becomes involved in a 16th century plot to r… read more
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- childrens
- time travel
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
8. The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1)
By: None , Brett Helquist , Peter Boston
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
"Tolly" Toseland 7 is rowed up to great-gran Linnet Oldknow by servant Boggis - there has always be… read more
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- classics
- childrens
- middle grade
- fiction
- fantasy
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10. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. A Stitch In Time
By: Penelope Lively
3.50
Format: 296 pages,
Always, since she was quite small, Maria had been extremely confused between what she had imagined … read more
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- classics
- childrens
- time travel
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- historical fiction
- fantasy
12. Jill
By: Philip Larkin
3.86
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of O… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. The Lady In The Van
By: Alan Bennett
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a … read more
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14. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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15. The Secrets of Wishtide
By: Kate Saunders
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her con… read more
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16. Keeping the World Away
By: Margaret Forster
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follo… read more
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17. The Girl at the Lion d'Or
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
"Beautifully written and--extraordinarily moving."--The Sunday Times(London) From the author of the… read more
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18. Dogsbody
By: Diana Wynne Jones
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried for murder by his heavenly peers and found guilty. His sentence: to … read more
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19. The Slaves of Solitude
By: David Lodge , Patrick Hamilton
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has beco… read more
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20. Pig-Heart Boy
By: Malorie Blackman
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
You're thirteen. All you want is a normal life. But most normal kids don't need heart transplants. … read more
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21. Jumping The Queue
By: Mary Wesley
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided … read more
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22. The Wintringham Mystery
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery
23. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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- fiction
24. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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25. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
26. The Murder Game
By: Tom Hindle
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder...In the seaside town of Hamlet Wick, guests ass… read more
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- fiction
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27. Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.97
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Who fired the fatal shot that snuffed out the life of miserly old Folliner during a London blackout… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Mind the cat."-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)
28. The Missing Sister
By: Dinah Jefferies
4.07
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
A STOLEN SISTER. A DAUGHTER DETERMINED TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH.'I was gripped, moved and utterly in th… read more
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- historical fiction
29. Wolf Road
By: Alice Roberts
4.00
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
The greatest adventure of all begins here, in the epic new prehistoric children's novel from bestse… read more
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- fantasy
