Sweet Thames
By: Matthew Kneale
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
An engineer's obsessive quest to find the cause of a cholera epidemic takes him on a journey from t…
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1. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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- british literature
- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
2. The Piano Tuner
By: Daniel Mason
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the Br… read more
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- historical
- novels
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- historical fiction
3. Elegy for April (Quirke #3)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
3.75
Format: 272 pages,
Quirke--the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist--is back, and he's determined to f… read more
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- fiction
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4. And When She Was Good
By: Laura Lippman
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
When Hector Lewis told his daughter that she had a nothing face, it was just another bit of tossed-… read more
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- fiction
5. Sweet Thames
By: Matthew Kneale
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
An engineer's obsessive quest to find the cause of a cholera epidemic takes him on a journey from t… read more
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- british literature
- 19th century
- historical
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- novels
6. The Burning (Maeve Kerrigan, #1)
By: Jane Casey
4.12
Format: 440 pages,
A determined young police constable goes it alone against an enigmatic killer and her bosses in a s… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. Restless
By: William Boyd
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her … read more
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9. Life Class (Life Class, #1)
By: Pat Barker
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Life Class is the first novel in Pat Barker's Life Class Trilogy - a powerful and unforgettable sto… read more
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10. The Old Devils
By: Kingsley Amis
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one ambition left in life: to drink Wa… read more
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11. His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of… read more
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12. Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
By: Ian Rankin , Mircea Pricăjan
3.00
Format: None pages,
Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied … read more
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13. The Silver Swan (Quirke #2)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
3.80
Format: None pages,
The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious… read more
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14. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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15. The Essex Serpent
By: Sarah Perry
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more
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16. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
17. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- fiction
18. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Sparrow
By: James Hynes
4.00
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
Told from the perspective of an enslaved boy being raised in a Roman brothel, a stunning literary h… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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- british literature
21. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)
By: John Banville
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
22. 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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- fiction
23. The King’s Evil (Marwood and Lovett #3)
By: Andrew Taylor
4.19
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court comes the next book in t… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
24. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
25. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
26. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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27. The Fell
By: Sarah Moss
3.63
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- british literature
"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."-Sarah Moss, The Fell
28. Hex
By: Jenni Fagan
3.85
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
29. The Space Between Us
By: Doug Johnstone
3.86
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
When several people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake complete… read more
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30. I Wanna Be Yours
By: John Cooper Clarke
4.17
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Poet Laureate of Punk, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. A… read more
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31. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
By: Peter Ross
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more
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- british literature
"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
