The Crimson Petal and the White
By: Michel Faber
3.88
Format: 922 pages, Paperback
Sugar, 19, prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper Mr…
Want to Read $ 11.99"El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura."-Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
"El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura."-Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
"El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura."-Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
"La educación es cebar al cordero antes de matarlo."-Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
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1. Slammerkin
By: Emma Donoghue
3.75
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Mary Saunders, a lower-class London schoolgirl, was born into rough cloth but hungered for lace and… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
"The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises."-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
"Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth."-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
"I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour."-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
"Nie możesz pozwolić by fakt, że ktoś chce twojej śmierci, uniemożliwił ci wypicie twojej herbaty."-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
2. Affinity
By: Sarah Waters
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?"-Sarah Waters, Affinity
"The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!"-Sarah Waters, Affinity
"They might be kind, I thought. They might be sensible and good. They will not be like you. But I did not say it. I knew it would mean nothing to her. I said something - something ordinary and mild, I…"-Sarah Waters, Affinity
"Every poor lady that came to me, that touched my hand, that drew a small part of my spirit from me to her—they were only shadows. Aurora, they were shadows of you! I was only seeking you out, as you …"-Sarah Waters, Affinity
3. The Book of Human Skin
By: Michelle Lovric
4.10
Format: 668 pages, Hardcover
1784, Venice. Miniguillo Fasan claws his way out of his mother's womb. The magnificent Palazzo Espa… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
5. On Beulah Height (Dalziel & Pascoe #17)
By: Reginald Hill
4.00
Format: 416 pages,
Into thin air ... Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale.… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
6. In the Company of the Courtesan
By: Sarah Dunant
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unt… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own."-Sarah Dunant, In the Company of the Courtesan
"I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin wh…"-Sarah Dunant, In the Company of the Courtesan
"I know what she is thinking. That she will never have those feelings. And she wants to have them. Oh, how much she wants to...I have seen it before, the way women yearn more for a child when they hav…"-Sarah Dunant, In the Company of the Courtesan
7. Fingersmith
By: Sarah Waters
4.02
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"You pearl!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"PIGEON MY ARSE!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"It's a curious, wanting thing."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
8. Tipping the Velvet
By: Sarah Waters
4.05
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersona… read more
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- romance
- historical
- victorian
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
9. Katherine
By: Philippa Gregory , Anya Seton
3.50
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history--that of Ka… read more
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10. The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
By: Margaret George
4.50
Format: None pages,
This is the story of England's most famous, and notorious, king. Henry was a charismatic, ardent - … read more
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11. History of a Pleasure Seeker
By: Richard Mason
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Piet Barol, the titular pleasure seeker, is a priapic, ambitious young man come to seek his fortune… read more
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12. The Crimson Petal and the White
By: Michel Faber
3.88
Format: 922 pages, Paperback
Sugar, 19, prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper Mr… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- british literature
- 19th century
- historical
- victorian
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
"El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura."-Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
"La educación es cebar al cordero antes de matarlo."-Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
"Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious."-Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
"Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it."-Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
13. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
By: Yvonne Korshak
4.29
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
14. His Forefathers and Mick
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more
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- novels
"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
15. The Virgins of Venice
By: Gina Buonaguro
4.26
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
2023 1st Place Chaucer Award Winner for Best Historical Fiction! In sixteenth-century Venice, on… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Lice breeds lice, and sin breeds sin."-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
"Venetians prefer being merchants to philosophers."-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
"To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars."-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
"Despite the convent walls, when I was writing, my mind was free."-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
16. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
By: K. Ritz
4.33
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
17. Alle Verhalen
By: Roald Dahl
4.24
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990) geniet wereldfaam als grootmeester van het korte verhaal. In een net van b… read more
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- fiction
18. Victor's Blessing
By: Barbara Sontheimer
4.34
Format: 582 pages, Paperback
Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
19. My Lady Parts: A Life Fighting Stereotypes
By: Doon MacKichan
4.06
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
The Feisty Feminist. The Hot Lesbian. The Desperate Cougar.The Deranged Mother. The Stupid Tart. Th… read more
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20. Be a Birder: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024
By: Hamza Yassin
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'Birds have been with me my entire life - from the colourful weaver birds on the banks of the Nile … read more
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21. Spinascura
By: Federica Frezza
3.98
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
A Spinascura, come negli altri paesini sparpagliati per l'Emilia, non cambia mai niente. Quando han… read more
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