The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera…
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1. Merry Hall
By: Beverley Nichols , Derrick Sayer , William McLaren
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war … read more
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"Every leaf that taps against the attic window, every thorn that nestles against the bricks, is part of a barrier that keeps the twentieth century at bay. I have always taken a dim view of the twentie…"-Beverley Nichols, Merry Hall
"Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal book…"-Beverley Nichols, Merry Hall
2. The Dressmaker
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.55
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in Ameri… read more
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3. Someone at a Distance
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectato… read more
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"With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table."-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catc…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation th…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it,…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
4. Blaming
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Jonathan Keates
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentiet… read more
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5. Family Album
By: Penelope Lively
3.79
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more
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6. Put Out More Flags
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Put Out More Flags is Waugh's superb send-up of "smart" England, the bohemian crowd, as World War I… read more
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7. Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2)
By: Sebastian Barry
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wi… read more
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8. The Long View
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
'The Long View', a revealing portrait of a marriage, is the ingenious construction of a couple's st… read more
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9. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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10. Ancient Light
By: John Banville
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Audio
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Seagives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel abo… read more
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11. Spiderweb
By: Penelope Lively
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and… read more
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12. Consequences
By: Penelope Lively
3.00
Format: 107 pages,
The Booker Prize-winning author's first novel since The Photographis a sweeping saga of three gener… read more
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13. The Road to Lichfield
By: Penelope Lively
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodi… read more
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14. 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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"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
15. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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18. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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19. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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20. The Three Graces
By: Amanda Craig
3.75
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Ruth, Diana and Marta are three very different friends having a last 'adventure before dementia' af… read more
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21. Nieuweling
By: Marion Bruinenberg
3.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Simone woont in een donker dorp diep in de bergen, dat al decennia geen nieuwe inwoners meer kent. … read more
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