11 must-read british literature books like The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

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The Camomile Lawn

By: Mary Wesley

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t…

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1. Brother and Sister

By: Joanna Trollope

3.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Brought up by the same parents, but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David have grown up… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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2. Jane and Prudence

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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3. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Brother of the More Famous Jack

By: Barbara Trapido

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Gol… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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5. A Passionate Man

By: Joanna Trollope

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagemen… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature

6. 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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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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7. 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
  • fiction
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8. All Change (Cazalet Chronicles #5)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

9. Christmas Pudding

By: Nancy Mitford

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease may have terminated the hunting at the Compton Bobbins' in th… read more

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10. The Camomile Lawn

By: Mary Wesley

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t… read more

Similar categories in Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn book and Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels

11. Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

By: Patrick Marnham

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, i… read more

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12. The Greengage Summer

By: Rumer Godden

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more

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13. Second Honeymoon

By: Joanna Trollope

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Now that her third and last child has left the nest, Edie Boyd's life turns suddenly and uncomforta… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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16. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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17. Close Knit

By: Jenny Colgan

3.98

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Spring Magic

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.13

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

Frances was free. She had enough money for her holiday, and when it was over she would find useful … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Where the Heart Should Be

By: Sarah Crossan

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

By: Jill Burke

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics *A Waterstones Best Book o… read more

Similar categories in Jill Burke's How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity book and Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn

  • historical

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Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)

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3.44

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All Change (Cazalet Chronicles #5)

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4.00

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3.87

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3.96

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4.54

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