The Sleeping Beauty (A Virago Modern Classic)
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.75
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Vinny Tumulty is a quiet, sensible man. When he goes to stay at a seaside town, his task is to comf…
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1. The World My Wilderness
By: Rose Macaulay
3.75
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Co… read more
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"Yes grand' mere" The clear brown eyes flickered and blinked; he looked at once apprehensive and shifty. His grandmother reflected that he knew nothing yet of what his future was to be, he was in her …"-Rose Macaulay, The World My Wilderness
2. Something in Disguise
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her c… read more
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3. Less Than Angels
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is surely appropriate that anthropologists, who spend their time studying life and behavior in v… read more
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"Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn’t show a healthy curiosity about one’s neighbours?"-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
4. 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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6. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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7. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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8. 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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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. The Past
By: Tessa Hadley
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing novel about family and the modern world encroaching upon the old, from one of Britain… read more
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11. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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12. 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
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13. Memento Mori
By: Muriel Spark
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on … read more
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14. The Beginning of Spring
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In March 1913, Frank Reid's wife abruptly leaves him and Moscow for her native England. Naturally, … read more
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15. The Hours Before Dawn
By: Celia Fremlin
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
This novel, one of the Virago Crime Classics, combines humour with a look at the danger and suspens… read more
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16. Visitors
By: Anita Brookner
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Timesas "one of the finest novelists of h… read more
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17. The Heart
By: Maylis de Kerangal , Sam Taylor
4.07
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, … read more
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18. The Sleeping Beauty (A Virago Modern Classic)
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.75
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Vinny Tumulty is a quiet, sensible man. When he goes to stay at a seaside town, his task is to comf… read more
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- 20th century
- womens
- novels
- modern classics
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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