House of Orphans
By: Helen Dunmore
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and for…
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1. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
By: Hisham Matar
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his… read more
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- historical
"What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"The past, like a severed limb, tried to fix itself onto the body of the present."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"Those who would later lament Seif and his father's (Qaddafi) regime are like a man who looks at the ashes and says, "I much prefer the fire"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
2. My Name is Leon
By: Kit de Waal
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV and Curly Wurlys are i… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When people fuck with you, you gotta choice. You can fuck back or swallow down. Swallow down enough times and you start to choke. Or you can learn to accept. Let go. Breathe easy."-Kit de Waal, My Name is Leon
3. Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.98
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Older cover edition of 9780349116655. In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency… read more
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- fiction
"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo , crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Pro…"-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
4. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. 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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- literary fiction
- 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
6. Frenchman's Creek
By: Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson
3.98
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside wi… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You have no hobby then?" "Moths interest me, my lady."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I am notorious," said Dona, "for making unfortunate remarks."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"—in reality it was escape she wanted, escape from her own self—"-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I had become like a prisoner in chains, and the dungeon was deep."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
7. Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5)
By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
When a flood sweeps through the valley, the Moomins must find a new house. And with typical Moomin … read more
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- fiction
8. Reservoir 13
By: Jon McGregor
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. The Thread
By: Victoria Hislop
4.01
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Threadis a magnificent story of a… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-sellin… read more
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11. House of Orphans
By: Helen Dunmore
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and for… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- russia
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- scandinavian literature
12. A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)
By: None
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double mur… read more
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13. After You'd Gone
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she… read more
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14. Swimming Home
By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more
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15. Frost in May
By: Antonia White
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wou… read more
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16. Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)
By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
This children's story is one of a series of books about the Moomins that blend magic, humour and ad… read more
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17. Letter To Sister Benedicta
By: Rose Tremain
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of The Gustav Sonata Fat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Con… read more
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18. Crow Lake
By: Mary Lawson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you kn… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Feeling must have rendered her numb."-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on thei…"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book …"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
19. Macbeth
By: Jo Nesbø
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a dark, rainy northern town, Nesbo's Macbethpits the ambitions of a corrupt policeman agains… read more
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20. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
22. The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
23. The Sealwoman's Gift
By: Sally Magnusson
4.15
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including … read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
24. Melmoth
By: Sarah Perry
3.43
Format: None pages, Audiobook
For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose com… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I wonder, when God permitted us to fall, if He knew we'd fall so far."-Sarah Perry, Melmoth
"So we have free will I suppose." "More's the pity. I always thought it would be rather relaxing to have one's life organised by the Fates."-Sarah Perry, Melmoth
"This melancholy company is curiously consoling. It is restful to be exempted from the obligation to find, in every spire and pinnacle of the mother of cities, reason to wonder and delight."-Sarah Perry, Melmoth
"My reader, my dear- you know her, you have been waiting for her: it is the witness, the wandering woman- the punished world's wickedness unfolds! Oh beloved one, my companion- it is I, Melmoth, whose…"-Sarah Perry, Melmoth
25. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
26. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. Pod
By: Laline Paull
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
28. Lily
By: Rose Tremain
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. Dark Tides (The Fairmile, #2)
By: Philippa Gregory
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the R… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
30. At the Table
By: Claire Powell
3.74
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
31. We Are All Birds of Uganda
By: Hafsa Zayyan
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
'You can't stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will...' 1960s UGANDA. Hasan… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
